Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and ElectingAn account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, majority judgment, shown to be superior to all other known methods. In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki argue that the traditional theory of social choice offers no acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect, to judge, or to rank. They find that the traditional model--transforming the "preference lists" of individuals into a "preference list" of society--is fundamentally flawed in both theory and practice. Balinski and Laraki propose a more realistic model. It leads to an entirely new theory and method--majority judgment--proven superior to all known methods. It is at once meaningful, resists strategic manipulation, elicits honesty, and is not subject to the classical paradoxes encountered in practice, notably Condorcet's and Arrow's. They offer theoretical, practical, and experimental evidence--from national elections to figure skating competitions--to support their arguments. Drawing on insights from wine, sports, music, and other competitions, Balinski and Laraki argue that the question should not be how to transform many individual rankings into a single collective ranking, but rather, after defining a common language of grades to measure merit, how to transform the many individual evaluations of each competitor into a single collective evaluation of all competitors. The crux of the matter is a new model in which the traditional paradigm--to compare--is replaced by a new paradigm--to evaluate. |
Contents
1 Majority Judgment | 1 |
2 Voting in Practice | 21 |
3 Traditional Social Choice | 47 |
4 Electing versus Ranking in the Traditional Model | 67 |
5 Strategy in the Traditional Model | 93 |
6 Fallacies of the Traditional Model in Voting | 111 |
7 Judging in Practice | 129 |
8 Common Language | 161 |
14 Large Electorates | 235 |
Voting | 251 |
16 Objections to Majority Judgment | 279 |
17 PointSumming Methods | 293 |
18 Approval Voting | 315 |
19 Comparisons of Voting Methods | 339 |
20 The Game of Voting | 351 |
21 Multicriteria Ranking | 375 |
9 New Model | 175 |
10 Strategy in Grading | 187 |
11 Meaningfulness | 199 |
12 MajorityGrade | 209 |
13 MajorityRanking | 219 |
22 A Summing Up | 387 |
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Name Index | 405 |
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Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki Limited preview - 2022 |
Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki Limited preview - 2011 |
Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki No preview available - 2022 |