VOTING PROCEDURES UNDER UNCERTAINTY by Hannu Nurmi ( 9783540433521 )

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Title:

VOTING PROCEDURES UNDER UNCERTAINTY

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

354043352X

ISBN 13:

9783540433521

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

27 May, 2002

Edition:

2002 ed.

Pages:

156

Description:

This volume deals with how uncertainty can be dealt with in models of voting procedures. Using the 2001 American presidential elections as an example, it demonstrates the extremely large variation in voter opinions that would have resulted in the same observed outcome.

Synopsis:

We live in an uncertain world, is a truism most of us hear more often than we would like. What one usually means to say by this is that we do not know what will happen in the future. Since changes, even major ones, have occurred in the past, it is possible that they will occur again in the future. In politics institutions are ways of coping with continuity and change. In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall deal with the ways in which analytic models are capable of taking into account voter uncertainty, ignorance and incompetence. We shall also discuss how uncertainty pertains to electoral outcomes. Given voter opinions, there is often a wide variation in the possible electoral outcomes. This could be called procedure-dependence of outcomes. Its existence shows that uncertainty is not something that can characterize only future events. It can pertain to past ones as well. This work is part of the Democracy and Constitution Project of Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS). The idea of writing a book on the performance of voting procedures under uncertain cir- cumstances came up in my correspondence with Dr. Per Molander of SNS a few years ago.

Illustrations:

44 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white; X, 156 p. 1

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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