Article ID: | iaor200416 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 45 |
End Page Number: | 64 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2002 |
Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
Authors: | Saari Donald G. |
Keywords: | voting |
For three-alternative positional voting and decision methods, it is shown how to decompose the profiles and data sets in a manner which identifies all possible conflict relative to a specified procedure. This approach is illusrated with the plurality vote by characterizing all possible profiles which cause all possible conflicts between the plurality and other pairwise and/or positional procedures. The approach then is used to last doubt on an often-cited plurality vote property.