Individual Research Project Section 17.2
Project 17.2
Compare and contrast the voting paradoxes. Which one do you find the most disturbing, and why? Which do you find the least disturbing, and why?… See the whole entry
Voting
Reference Topics 17-2
This site by the American Mathematical Society gives an excellent overview of voting and elections.
http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/voting-introduction.html
This site gives some references to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArrowsParadox.html
You can use this site to find real-life examples of voting dilemmas:
http://www.archives.gov/
This … See the whole entry
Reference Topics 17-1
This interesting cite is attempting to build a case in favor of a wider use of approval voting.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/goodsoc.html… See the whole entry
Section 17.1: Voting
17.1 Outline
- Dictatorship
- Majority rule
- vote
- definition
- symmetry
- Plurality method
- Borda count
- definition
- run-off election
- Hare method
- Pairwise comparison method
- binary voting
- definition
- Tournament method
- sequential voting
- tournament method
- tournament elimination method
- Approval voting method
- Summary