This paper investigates the problem of strategy stability and sincerity in approval voting. It gives "strong" support for Fishburn's claim that, among all nonranked voting systems, approval voting is the uniformly most sincere one whenever the number of candidates is not greater than 5.
Admissible and sincere strategies under approval voting
β Scribed by Cyril Carter
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 630 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
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