Chapter 1: The Mathematics of Voting: The Paradoxes of Democracy
A successful student can...
- Construct and interpret a preference schedule for an election involving preference ballots.
- Implement the plurality, Borda count, plurality-with-elimination, and pairwise comparisons vote counting methods.
- Rank candidates using recursive and extended methods.
- Identify fairness criteria as they pertain to voting methods.
- Understand the significance of Arrows' impossibility theorem.
