AI, Artificial Incompetence—The Ubiquitous Use of Binary Voting

Peter Emerson ()
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Peter Emerson: The de Borda Institute

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Punters' Guide to Democracy, 2022, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Binary votingElectoral systemsbinary voting is one way of making decisions, but it is probably the crudest voting procedure ever devised. It has many failings, one of the biggest of which lies in the fact that it is often inaccurate; secondly, it’s so easy to manipulate. Little wonder then that, in many instances, that which is declared to be the ‘democratic will’ is perhaps the will of only its author, and not necessarily the will of parliament let alone ‘the will of the people’.

Keywords: Majority voting; Manipulation; Win-or-lose; Adversarial politics; Democratic majority opinion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06987-1_1

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