I review the recent book by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki that critiques the traditional model of social choice based on ranking and proposes to replace it with a new model, majority judgment, that is based on grading

There are many situations wherein a group of individuals (e.g., voters) must produce an ordered list of 'best' alternatives selected from a given group of alternatives (e.g., candidates). Standard approaches include ranked voting methods (RVMs) and methods of paired comparisons (MPCs). Typical...