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Some Aspects of Elections — to Fill One Seat or Many

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Although no electoral system can be perfect, some of those that are in use are very much better than others. A number of methods are reviewed and reasons are given for believing that Condorcet's method of paired comparisons is to be preferred where a single seat is to be contested, but the single transferable vote (STV) method where more than one seat is involved. A tentative suggestion is made of a means of combining these two methods into a single system.

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  • I. D. Hill, 1988. "Some Aspects of Elections — to Fill One Seat or Many," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 151(2), pages 243-261, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:151:y:1988:i:2:p:243-261
    DOI: 10.2307/2982757
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    1. Mostapha Diss & Ahmed Doghmi, 2016. "Multi-winner scoring election methods: Condorcet consistency and paradoxes," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 169(1), pages 97-116, October.
    2. Nicolaus Tideman, 1995. "The Single Transferable Vote," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 9(1), pages 27-38, Winter.
    3. Nicolaus Tideman & Daniel Richardson, 2000. "Better Voting Methods Through Technology: The Refinement-Manageability Trade-Off in the Single Transferable Vote," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 103(1), pages 13-34, April.
    4. Kamwa, Eric, 2017. "On stable rules for selecting committees," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 36-44.
    5. Hannu Nurmi, 2007. "Assessing Borda's Rule and Its Modifications," Discussion Papers 15, Aboa Centre for Economics.
    6. Eric Kamwa & Vincent Merlin, 2018. "Coincidence of Condorcet committees," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 50(1), pages 171-189, January.
    7. Nicolaus Tideman, 2015. "Multiple-winner voting rules," Chapters, in: Jac C. Heckelman & Nicholas R. Miller (ed.), Handbook of Social Choice and Voting, chapter 17, pages 303-324, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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