DISPOSING DICTATORS, DEMYSTIFYING VOTING PARADOXES by Donald G. Saari ( 9780521516051 )

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Title:

DISPOSING DICTATORS, DEMYSTIFYING VOTING PARADOXES
SOCIAL CHOICE ANALYSIS

By:

Donald G. Saari

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Hardback

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0521516056

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 August, 2008

Pages:

256

Description:

This book is a positive analysis of voting 'paradoxes' and argues that negative 'impossibility' results are not justified.

Synopsis:

We decide by elections, but do we elect who the voters really want? The answer, as we have learned over the last two centuries, is 'not necessarily'. What a negative, frightening assertion about a principal tool of democracy! This negativism has been supported by two hundred years of published results showing how bad the situation can be. This expository, largely non-technical book is the first to find positive results showing that the situation is not anywhere as dire and negative as we have been led to believe. Instead there are surprisingly simple explanations for the negative assertions, and positive conclusions can be obtained.

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6 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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