Authors:William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: voting, studies, choice, welfare, rules, condorcet, paradoxes, group, coherence, efficiency
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-11-24
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3642031064
ISBN-13: 9783642031069
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 degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become more mutually coherent. Similar analysis is used here to indicate that this notion is valid for most, but not all, other voting paradoxes. This study also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that the pairwise m
Author: Gao
Publisher: Novinka Books
Keywords: assistance, voting, bilingual
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-08
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 160456587X
ISBN-13: 9781604565874
This book focuses on obtaining more detailed information about bilingual voting assistance from selected jurisdictions across the country. This book’s objectives were to determine: the ways that selected jurisdictions covered under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act have provided bilingual voting assistance as of the November 2006 general election and any subsequent elections through June 2007, and the challenges they reportedly faced in providing such assistance; the perceived usefulness of this bilingual voting assistance, and the extent to which the selected jurisdictions evaluated
Author: Donald G. Saari
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: voting, geometry, basic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2003-01-29
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540600647
ISBN-13: 9783540600640
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 This book is directed toward students and others wishing to learn about voting, experts will discover previously unpublished results.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 differ because they rely on different information, casts series doubt on the reliability of a Condorcet winner as a standard for the field, make
Author: Lois Duke Whitaker
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: gap, gender, voting
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-03-06
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0252075250
ISBN-13: 9780252075254
This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the history, complexity, and ways of analyzing the gender gap; the gender gap in relation to partisanship; motherhood, ethnicity, and the impact of parental status on the gender gap; and the gender gap in races involving female candidates. Voting the Gender Gap analyzes trends in voting while probing how
Author: Fredrik Liljeblad
Publisher: Cherry Lake Pub.
Keywords: governments, citizens, voting
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-08
List price: $27.07
ISBN-10: 1602790620
ISBN-13: 9781602790629
Author: Dr Jocelyn A J Evans
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: introduction, voting, voters
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2004-01-31
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0761949100
ISBN-13: 9780761949107
’This clear and comprehensive textbook will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate courses on elections and voting behaviour. Complex theoretical and statistical ideas are explained lucidly and effectively - no mean achievement’ - Representation ’Voters and Voting fills a yawning gap in the study of elections and voting behaviour. No other book today matches the breadth and depth of coverage provided by Jocelyn Evans. This book is destined to become a staple in university courses on elections, parties and political methodology. It will also be a well-thumbed add
Author: Peter J. Coughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: theory, voting, probabilistic
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1992-10-30
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 0521360528
ISBN-13: 9780521360524
Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting models available, also developing further his important contributions. Probabilistic voting theory is the mathematical theory of candidate behavior in or in anticipation of elections in which candidates are unsure what voters’ preferences will be on all or most issues, which is true of most governmental elections. The theory asks first whether optimal candidate strategies can be determined, given uncertainty about voter preferences, and if so, what exactly those strategies are, given various circumst
