Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective
decisions. In practice, a voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way …

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Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Typically they suggest
that something is wrong with the way in dividual opinions are being expressed or processed …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

A clear, accessible introduction to the institutional regimes of 15 countries in western
Europe, by an outstanding team of leading European political scientists. Each chapter is …

Computational social choice is an interdisciplinary field of study at the interface of social
choice theory and computer science, promoting an exchange of ideas in both directions. On …

Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and
decision procedures do not behave as expected. Instead, we now know that when different …

Social choice theory concerns the design and formal analysis of methods for aggregating
the preferences of multiple agents. Examples of such methods include voting procedures …

The literature on referendums comes to conflicting assessments: for some authors
referendums are equivalent to direct democracy, for others, a poor and unfounded …

The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a
small number of candidates if voters' preferences on candidates reflect any significant …