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The Underlying Assumptions of Electoral Systems

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  • Moshé Machover

    (Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences)

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My aim in this brief paper is modest: not to present new findings, but to propose what I regard as a useful way of classifying voting procedures, and thus organizing the way we look at them. My main thesis is that we have to make a strict distinction between two kinds of consideration in choosing a voting/election procedure: Political criteria. I use this rubric in a very broad sense, including criteria ranging 9 from the pragmatic to the philosophical. But all of them are purely a matter of 10 opinion, not of “right” or “wrong”. 11 • Social-choice considerations. I take this rubric in the narrow sense: the logico- 12 mathematical properties of a voting procedure, the pathologies and paradoxes 13 that afflict it.

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  • Moshé Machover, 2012. "The Underlying Assumptions of Electoral Systems," Studies in Choice and Welfare, in: Dan S. Felsenthal & Moshé Machover (ed.), Electoral Systems, chapter 0, pages 3-9, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stcchp:978-3-642-20441-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20441-8_1
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    1. Pietro Speroni di Fenizio & Daniele A. Gewurz, 2019. "The space of all proportional voting systems and the most majoritarian among them," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 52(4), pages 663-683, April.

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