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Review of Howard DeLong (1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s theorem", with a reaction, also on its relevance in 2008 for the European Union
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
insufficient attention in the literature. This review also compares DeLong’s approach with my own book "Voting theory for democracy …There will be many researchers who discover voting theory afresh and who will want to understand it and its interesting … paradoxes. Arrow's theorem (1951, 1963) is the most celebrated result in social choice theory. It has been criticized a lot but …
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Why one would accept Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with Colignatus (2001, 2007b) “Voting theory for democracy” (VTFD) then we find that … SDE does not fit voting theory for democracy. Inspection of the material upon which the SDE letter is based also shows a …
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In a democracy, Bayrou would have won. Application of the Borda Fixed Point method to the 2007 French presidential elections
Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Democratic nations are advised to have parliaments select the chief executive by the Borda Fixed Point method. The current practice of having direct popular elections using systems that have originated in history is inoptimal and actually quite undemocratic since winners are selected who don’t...
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