A Nail-Biting Election

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A Nail-Biting Election

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Brams, S. J.
Fishburn, P. C.

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Steven J. Brams

Abstract

In the first competitive election for President of the Social Choice and Welfare Society, the (official) approval-voting winner differed from the (hypothetical) Borda count winner, who was also the Condorcet winner. But because the election was essentially a toss-up, it is impossible to say who should have won. The election forCouncil was more true to form of other professional-society elections, with the winners identical, and even their rankings almost duplicative, under both voting systems.

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Paper provided by C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University in its series Working Papers with number 00-06.

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Date of creation: 2000
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- Steven J. Brams & Peter C. Fishburn, 2001. "A nail-biting election," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 409-414. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations

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Brams, Steven J. & Potthoff, Richard F., 1997. "Proportional Representation: Broadening the Options," Working Papers 97-06, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]
Bondonio, Daniele, 2002. "Evaluating the Employment Impact of Business Incentive Programs in EU Disadvantaged Areas. A case from Northern Italy," P.O.L.I.S. department's Working Papers 27, Department of Public Policy and Public Choice - POLIS. [Downloadable!]

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Jean-François Laslier & Karine Straeten, 2008. "A live experiment on approval voting," Experimental Economics, Springer, vol. 11(1), pages 97-105, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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