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Monotonic incompatibility between electing and ranking

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  • Balinski, Michel
  • Jennings, Andrew
  • Laraki, Rida

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Borda proposed to assign points to each of m candidates. Condorcet proposed to assign points to each of m! rankings of candidates. One is appropriate for electing, the other for ranking. They satisfy different types of monotonicity that are incompatible.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economics Letters.

Volume (Year): 105 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (November)
Pages: 145-147

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Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:105:y:2009:i:2:p:145-147

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Keywords: Borda Condorcet Incompatibility Electing Ranking;

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  1. Michel Balinski & Rida Laraki, 2010. "Judge:Don't Vote!," Working Papers hal-00536968, HAL.

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