Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic

by Samuel Merrill III

Book Overview

This book addresses a significant area of applied social-choice theory--the evaluation of voting procedures designed to select a single winner from a field of three or more candidates. Such procedures can differ strikingly in the election outcomes they produce, the opportunities for manipulation that they create, and the nature of the candidates--centrist or extremist--whom they advantage. The author uses computer simulations based on models of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691604622
• ISBN13: 9780691604626
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"