Springer Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them - Springer

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises that occur in elections, revealing counterintuitive outcomes where additional support harms candidates or abstaining produces better results than voting. This Springer book examines how no voting system is immune to these paradoxes and explores how current systems handle them. The book outlines, explains and classifies numerous paradoxes including Borda's and Condorcet's classic ones, several monotonicity and compound majority paradoxes, and more. It provides a comprehensive guide to understanding these voting anomalies and the practical approaches used to address them in real-world electoral systems. Essential reading for economists, political scientists, and anyone interested in voting theory.