Basic Geometry of Voting

by Donald G. Saari

A surprise is how the complexities of voting theory can be explained and resolved with the comfortable geometry of our three-dimensional world. This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results. As an example, a new profile decomposition quickly resolves two centuries old controversies of Condorcet and Borda, demonstrates, that the rankings of pairwise and other methods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540600647
• ISBN13: 9783540600640
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"