Introduction

Mostapha Diss and Vincent Merlin ()
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Vincent Merlin: CNRS and Université de Caen Normandie

A chapter in Evaluating Voting Systems with Probability Models, 2021, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The use of probability arguments to assess the qualities and flaws of decision procedures has a long history. The first book on the mathematics of democracy, Essai sur l’application de l’analyse à la probabilité des décisions rendues à la pluralité des voix, was published by the Marquis de Condorcet (1785). In contemporary times, the birth of game theory and social choice theory in the 1940s saw the development of new mathematical tools and techniques to analyze voting rules and decision-making. It is needless to say that some of these arguments are based on the notion of probabilities. The next paragraphs will present several contributions that are worth mentioning.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-48598-6_1

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