Describing Society Through Approval Data

Jean-François Laslier

Chapter Chapter 19 in Handbook on Approval Voting, 2010, pp 455-468 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An election is not only a mean to choose among options, candidates or representatives, but it also serves as a privileged occasion for voters to express publicly their opinions and to know the opinions of the others. These two goals — choice and expression — may be contradictory but they co-exist in the minds of the voters. The usual rationale for voting is to elect someone or to have a decision taken, that is collective choice, but voters also sometime declare that their rationale for voting is to “express themselves” or to “contribute to the political debate”. The choice and expression rationales also co-exist in practice since, for instance, on top of the identity of the elected candidate, the number of votes gathered by a candidate matters for deciding of her political fate, even if she is not elected.

Keywords: Vote Rule; Canonical Representation; American Political Science Review; Approval Vote; Relative Score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7_19

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