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 …

Behavioral Social Choice looks at the probabilistic foundations of collective decision-making
rules. The authors challenge much of the existing theoretical wisdom about social choice …

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 …

2.7 Conclusion Numerous empirical studies have been conducted to determine if
Condorcet's Paradox is ever observed in actual elections. After surveying these studies, we …

In order to evaluate the creditworthiness of various countries, a learning model is induced
from the 1998 Standard and Poor's country risk ratings, using the 1998 values of nine …

The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and
comments as well as Vincent Merlin for his perceptive comments regarding a first draft of this …

Approval voting is the voting method recently adopted by the Society for Social Choice and
Welfare. Positional voting methods include the famous plurality, antiplurality, and Borda …

Abstract The Borda Effect, first introduced by Colman and Poutney (Behav Sci 23: 15–20,
1978), occurs in a preference aggregation process using the Plurality rule if given the …

The results presented in this chapter belong to the long tradition of evaluating the voting
rules on their propensity to select the Condorcet winner. This tradition dates back to de …

Approval Voting is known to possess many good properties when voters have dichotomous
preferences. But, when attention was restricted to the limiting case for large electorates with …