Handbook on Approval Voting
Under Approval Voting, voters can ''approve" as many candidates as they want, and the candidate approved by the largest number of voters is elected. Since the publication of the seminal book written by Steven Brams and Peter Fishburn in 1983, a variety of
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Jean-François Laslier • M. Remzi Sanver Editors
Handbook on Approval Voting
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Editors Professor Jean-François Laslier Laboratoire d’Econométrie Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau France [email protected]
Professor M. Remzi Sanver Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Economics Kurtuluş Deresi Cad. No. 47 34440 Istanbul Turkey [email protected]
Studies in Choice and Welfare ISSN 1614-0311 ISBN 978-3-642-02838-0 e-ISBN 978-3-642-02839-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010929049 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMX Design GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To Ipek and Maryvonne: Approved love.
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Preface
I am honored to write a preface to this remarkably broad and comprehensive volume on approval voting (AV). It has been almost 35 years since Peter C. Fishburn and I met in 1976 and began research on AV. Besides my 30-year collaboration with Fishburn, I have collaborated with several other scholars – including D. Marc Kilgour, Samuel Merrill, Jack H. Nagel, M. Remzi Sanver, and William S. Zwicker – on AV-related research. Over these years there has been a profusion of articles and books reporting on empirical and theoretical aspects of AV and their normative implications. This volume touches on all aspects of this research and will be a very helpful sourcebook to scholars who want to carry this research forward. In Brams and Fishburn (1983/2007, p. 172), Fishburn and I were unabashed in our support of AV: Approval voting strikes at the heart of how political debate is resolved. It offers a new approach to the realization of democratic principles by redefining what constitutes a democratic choice. Indeed, the foundation on which representative government is built is periodic elections, and the central problem of elections today is how to translate voter preferences, with as little distortion as possible, into cons
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