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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460356103321

Autore

Balinski M. L

Titolo

Majority judgment [[electronic resource] ] : measuring, ranking, and electing / / Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-02015-7

9786613020154

0-262-29560-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LarakiRida

Disciplina

302/.13

Soggetti

Social choice

Voting

Ranking and selection (Statistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Contents; Preface; 1 Majority Judgment; 2 Voting in Practice; 3 Traditional Social Choice; 4 Electing versus Ranking in the Traditional Model; 5 Strategy in the Traditional Model; 6 Fallacies of the Traditional Model in Voting; 7 Judging in Practice; 8 Common Language; 9 New Model; 10 Strategy in Grading; 11 Meaningfulness; 12 Majority-Grade; 13 Majority-Ranking; 14 Large Electorates; 15 Common Language: Voting; 16 Objections to Majority Judgment; 17 Point-Summing Methods; 18 Approval Voting; 19 Comparisons of Voting Methods; 20 The Game of Voting; 21 Multicriteria Ranking

22 A Summing UpReferences; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title provides an account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, 'majority judgement', shown to be superior to all other known methods.