Overview
- Provides an overview of 18 voting procedures for elections resulting in the choice of a single winner
- Describes the most common voting paradoxes
- Illustrates by way of examples the vulnerability of some voting procedures to some paradoxes and explains in detail why some procedures are immune to some paradoxes
- Serves as a companion to the 2017 publication by Felsenthal and Nurmi, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
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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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Voting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate
Book Subtitle: Proving Their (In)Vulnerability to Various Voting Paradoxes
Authors: Dan S. Felsenthal, Hannu Nurmi
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74033-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74032-4Published: 26 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74033-1Published: 19 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 134
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Electoral Politics, Political Philosophy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Democracy