Condorcet Efficiency and Social Homogeneity

William V. Gehrlein () and Dominique Lepelley
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William V. Gehrlein: University of Delaware

Chapter Chapter 5 in Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence, 2011, pp 157-198 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There are many different aspects of election procedures that might be studied. In general we might be concerned with the procedure by which an election will be held, the fairness of the procedure toward candidates, and the consideration of how well the procedure does at selecting the candidate who best reflects the preferences of the voters. Fishburn (1983) presents a survey of research that deals with these issues in some detail. The aspects of elections that are considered are: the nomination process, agenda formation, candidate strategy, voter psychology and strategy, ballot forms and method of aggregation, evaluative aspects of aggregation, incentive compatibility, costs and financing, and institutional effects. Richelson (1975, 1978a, b, 1979, 1980, 1981), Nurmi (1983) and Tideman (2006) all present analyses that evaluate voting rules according to a number of different criteria, including the Condorcet Criterion. Bordley (1983, 1985) presents simulation studies to evaluate voting rules on a number of criteria other than the Condorcet Criterion. There are clearly many different criteria by which voting rules can be evaluated.

Keywords: Vote Rule; Preference Ranking; Vote Situation; Efficiency Hypothesis; Algebraic Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03107-6_5

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