Game Theoretic Analysis of Voting in Committees

by Bezalel Peleg

Book Overview

This book is a theoretical and completely rigorous analysis of voting in committees that provides mathematical proof of the existence of democratic voting systems, which are immune to the manipulation of preferences of coalitions of voters. The author begins by determining the power distribution among voters that is induced by a voting rule, giving particular consideration to choice by plurality voting and Borda's rule. He then constructs, for all...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521074657
• ISBN13: 9780521074650
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"