theory are either context dependent or subject to unreasonable restrictions. This is the real source of the diverse … "paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …

In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting … theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow's theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow's theory …, there evolved a consistent cardinal theory of collective choice. This theory, most prominently associated with the work of …

and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …