A nail-biting election

Steven Brams () and Peter C. Fishburn ()
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Social Choice and Welfare, 2001, vol. 18, issue 3, 409-414

Abstract: In the first competitive election for President of the Social Choice and Welfare Society, the (official) approval-voting winner differed from the (hypothetical) Borda count winner, who was also the Condorcet winner. But because the election was essentially a toss-up, it is impossible to say who should have won. The election for Council was more true to form of other professional-society elections, with the winners identical, and even their rankings almost duplicative, under both voting systems.

Date: 2001-07-12
Note: Received: 11 April 2000/Accepted: 26 March 2001
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