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  3. From: leei@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Lee Iverson)
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  5. Subject: Re: Proportional representation
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  7. Date: 7 Nov 92 20:58:57 GMT
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  15. This discussion is interesting but sadly uninformed.
  16.  
  17. There is a well-known theorem which essentially says that there is no
  18. system of voting system which accurately reflects a system of
  19. preferences without introducing paradoxes (i.e. situations in which
  20. moving up in the rankings of some subset of voters will actually cause
  21. someone to do worse)!
  22.  
  23. Although I don't have a quick reference handy, a quick review of our
  24. library's catalog shows a surprising number of books dealing with
  25. exactly this subject, e.g.:
  26.  
  27. Brams, S.,  Approval Voting JF1001 B72 1983
  28. Nurmi, H., Comparing Voting Systems JA74 N86 1987
  29. Abrams, S., Some Conceptual Problems of Voting Theory JF1001 A25
  30. Merrill, S., Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic JF1001 M47 1988
  31. Coughlin, P., Probabilistic Voting Theory (new)
  32. Moulin, H., The Strategy of Social Choice HB846.8 M68 1983
  33.  
  34. I'd suggest that anyone wanting to carry this further check some of these out.
  35.  
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  37.  
  38. Lee Iverson            McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
  39. leei@mcrcim.mcgill.edu        Computer Vision and Robotics Lab
  40.                 McGill University, Montreal
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