Condorcet’s Paradox

• Main Author: Gehrlein, William V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library C:, 40
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Political science.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Political Science.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Condorcet’s Paradox has been formally studied by an amazing number of people in many different contexts for more than two centuries. Peter Fishburn introduced the basic notion of the Paradox to me in 1971 during a course in Social Choice Theory at Pennsylvania State University. My immediate response...

Table of Contents:

• Elections and Voting Paradoxes
• Condorcet’s Paradox
• The Cases of Two and Three Candidates
• The Case of More than Three Candidates
• The Impact of Societal Factors
• The Impact of Coherent Preferences
• Individual Intransitivity.