Chapter Twenty-Six - Probabilistic and Spatial Models of Voting

Peter Coughlin

Chapter 26 in Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, vol. 2, pp 833-896 from Elsevier

Abstract: This chapter discusses results about committees that use majority rule, some related results about majority rule as a social choice rule (that is, without referring to a specific context where majority rule is used), and results about electoral competitions where the winner is selected by majority rule.

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Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-444-82914-6
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