Characterizing majority rule on various discrete models of consensus.

Majority rule;approval voting;voting;ballot space

Trevor Leach

University:University of Louisville

Department:Mathematics

关键词: Majority rule;    approval voting;    voting;    ballot space;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

In any social structure, there is often a need to reach decisions, not only within a group but between groups as well, sometimes even urgently so. Each of the individuals constituting these groups has their own preference for the decision to be made. We will discuss the problem of aggregating individual preferences into a collective preference and under what conditions we are required to select a collective majority. In this dissertation we will look at three models of consensus and show the conditions vary based on the model.