Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules /

• Main Authors: Gehrlein, William V. (Author), Lepelley, Dominique (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare,
• Subjects: Political science.; Political economy.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Public finance.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Economy.; Public Economics.; Political Science.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a small number of candidates if voters’ preferences on candidates reflect any significant degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange el...

Table of Contents:

• Voting Paradoxes and Their Probabilities
• Condorcet's Paradox and Group Coherence
• Other Incompability Paradoxes
• Other Voting Paradoxes
• Condorcet Efficiency and Social Homogeneity
• Coherence and the Efficiency Hypothesis
• Other Characteristics of Voting Rules
• The Significance of Voting Rule Selection
• Complete PMR Ranking Efficiencies.