The paradox of voting intelligently
β Scribed by R. Urbatsch
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 576 KB
- Volume
- 150
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Aristotle must be turning over in his grave. The theory of democracy can never be the same (actually, it never was!) since Arrow. " (Samuelson, 1973) The following analysis proposes that the Voting Paradox is not a paradox, but rather a question of the candidates' aims. Collective choice theorists
One paradox of voting states that, in a general election, in which many citizens vote, the probability that a single voter can affect the outcome is so small that in general citizens have no rational reason for voting. However, if all citizens accept this reasoning, then none will vote, and so each