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Handbook on Approval Voting

By Jean-François Laslier , M. Remzi Sanver (auth.) , M. Remzi Sanver (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
3642028381, 9783642028380
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5383058 bytes)
Series
Studies in Choice and Welfare
Edition
1
Pages
480\500
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Economic Theory; Public Finance & Economics; PolitEconomicsSocial and Behav. Sciences

Description

Under Approval Voting, voters can ''approve" as many candidates as they want, and the candidate approved by the largest number of voters is elected. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a variety of theoretical and empirical works have enhanced our understanding of this method. The behavior of voters in such elections has been observed both in the laboratory and in the field; social choice theorists have analyzed the method from the axiomatic point of view; game theory and computer science have been used to scrutinize various strategic aspects; and political scientists have considered the structure of electoral competition entailed by Approval Voting. This book surveys this large body of knowledge through a collection of contributions written by specialists of the various disciplines involved.

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