Overview
- First book devoted to monotonicity-related properties of voting rules
- Provides an evaluation of 18 voting procedures in terms of the most important monotonicity-related criteria in fixed and variable electorates
- Reveals the dilemma of non-motonotic procedures as a basis for elections
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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Hannu Nurmi was the Associate Professor of Methodology of Social Sciences in University of Turku 1974 - 1995. Thereafter he became the chair holder of Political Science in the same university until his retirement in 2012.
During the academic year 1972-73 he was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1978 Nurmi held a British Academy Wolfson Fellowship at University of Essex and from 1991 till 1996 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in University of Turku. In 1998 he was a Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota. Nurmi was nominated the Academy Professor of Academy of Finland for the period 2003-2008. He is a member of Academia Scientiarum Fennica (the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters) from 1982. From 2008 till 2011 he was the Director of Centre of Excellence in Public Choice Research of University of Turku. From 2012 he is Professor Emeritus in the same university. Nurmi's research interests include the theory of voting and electoral systems, applied game theory and causal modeling. List of scientic publications: http://users.utu./hnurmi/homepage/webpub.pdf/
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
Authors: Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51061-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51060-6Published: 17 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51061-3Published: 08 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 88
Topics: International Political Economy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Political Philosophy