A Pragmatic Method for Evaluating Election Schemes through Simulation
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Political Science Review
- Vol. 77 (1) , 123-141
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1956015
Abstract
This article combines ideas from ethics, social choice, and political theory to develop a simulation method for assessing the desirability of different voting schemes in different situations. I use the method to evaluate six well-known election systems. My results are intuitive. I find that approval voting seems to be a good voting scheme for mass elections.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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