Majority judgment : measuring, ranking, and electing / Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balinski, M. L., author.

Laraki, Rida, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social choice.

Voting.

Ranking and selection (Statistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-283-02015-7

9786613020154

0-262-29560-1

OCLC:

741251229