We scrutinize and compare, from the perspective of modern theory of social choice, two rules that have been used to rank competitors in Figure Skating for the past decades. The first rule has been in use at least from 1982 until 1998, when it was replaced by a new one. We also compare these two...

In this paper we present an axiomatic analysis of several ranking methods for tournaments. We find that two of them exhibit a very good behaviour with respect to the set of properties under consideration. One of them is the maximum likelihood ranking, the most common method in statistics and...

Overview: A field experiment isolates the downstream effects of being mobilized to vote in a ranked choice vote (RCV) election. After people are mobilized to vote in their first RCV election, they report more positive evaluations of RCV across multiple dimensions.Abstract: Ranked choice voting...