How Should We Elect Our Leaders?

Eric Maskin

Chapter Chapter 11 in Economics for the Curious, 2014, pp 159-169 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How should we choose the leader of our country — say, the president or prime minister? The easy answer is to hold an election. But there are many possible election methods — in other words, there are many methods for determining the winner on the basis of citizens’ votes. Indeed, citizens in both the United States and France, for example, vote for their presidents, but the two countries determine the winning candidate very differently.1 Thus we need a way to compare the various methods and identify the best ones.

Keywords: Majority Rule; Preference Ranking; Electoral College; Social Choice Rule; Electoral Vote (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137383594_12

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