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Balinski, M. L.,

Majority judgment : measuring, ranking, and electing / Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. - 1 online resource (xv, 414 pages) : illustrations -

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-403) and indexes.

Cover ; Contents; Preface; 1 Majority Judgment; 2 Voting in Practice; 3 Traditional Social Choice; 4 Electing versus Ranking in the Traditional Model; 5 Strategy in the Traditional Model; 6 Fallacies of the Traditional Model in Voting; 7 Judging in Practice; 8 Common Language; 9 New Model; 10 Strategy in Grading; 11 Meaningfulness; 12 Majority-Grade; 13 Majority-Ranking; 14 Large Electorates; 15 Common Language: Voting; 16 Objections to Majority Judgment; 17 Point-Summing Methods; 18 Approval Voting; 19 Comparisons of Voting Methods; 20 The Game of Voting; 21 Multicriteria Ranking 22 A Summing UpReferences; Name Index; Subject Index

This title provides an account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, 'majority judgement', shown to be superior to all other known methods.

ISBN: 9780262295604 (electronic bk.) 0262295601 (electronic bk.) 9786613020154 661302015X

Source: 22573/ctt59ps0n JSTOR 8641 MIT Press 9780262295604 MIT Press

LCCN: 2010026311

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social choice.
Voting.
Ranking and selection (Statistics)
Choix collectif.
Vote.
Rang et sélection (Statistique)
voting.
PSYCHOLOGY--Social Psychology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Econometrics.
Ranking and selection (Statistics)
Social choice.
Voting.

Subjects--Index Terms: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HB846.8 / .B354 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 302/.13