Geometry of Voting

by Donald G. Saari

Book Overview

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 tallying methods are applied to the same ballots, radically different outcomes can emerge, that most procedures can select the candidate, the voters view as being inferior, and that some commonly used methods have the disturbing anomaly that a winning candidate can lose after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642486460
• ISBN13: 9783642486463
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"