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Approval Voting# Economics - 经济

a*r2098-08-31 07:08

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The central problem of elections is how to translate voterspreferences, with as little distortion as possible, into consensus choices. In a democratic election between two candidates, the most widely used voting procedure is elections by simple
majority, largely for its certain desirable features in reflecting voterspreferences. For the multi-candidate elections (those with more than two candidates), plurality voting is probably the most common voting system. Under plurality voting, each
vo

q*i2098-08-31 07:08

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if this is something you are interested, you may want to check out
literature on game theory, and its application in political
science.
I know quite a few people in this area (more towards finance/economics), and
feel free to let me know if you need help.

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: The central problem of elections is how to translate voterspreferences, with as little distortion as possible, into consensus choices. In a democratic election between two candidates, the most widely used voting procedure is elections by simple
: majority, largely for its certain desirable features in reflecting voterspreferences. For the multi-candidate elections (those with more than two candidates), plurality voting is probably the most common voting system. Under plurality voting, each
: vo

a*r2098-08-31 07:08

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Thanks for qili's reply. Yes, this is the topic of one of my essay for
Microeconomics. Unfortuanately, this quarter I met a very harsh professor in
that class, who is from Singapore but can speak chinsese. ( Are all the
Chinese professors in US enjoying torturing students?). He required everyone
to turn in an extra essay after the final exam. And last year, he taught the
same class and failed four out of eight. Approval voting is very hot in those
days and mostly it is adopted by some professio

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:
: if this is something you are interested, you may want to check out
: literature on game theory, and its application in political
: science.
: I know quite a few people in this area (more towards finance/economics), and
: feel free to let me know if you need help.

q*i2098-08-31 07:08

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I am not that keen on voting (it probably is a political science topic). In
finance, game theory has been extensively used, and yielded some very
interesting results (dividend policy, for example). I can certainly direct
you to a couple of people in this area (are you formiliar with game
theory yourself?). let's start with a few names: Nash (as in Nash
equilibrium), Bertrand (a french scholar who pretty single handedly
invented game theory), Arnold Boot (a Belgium), Anjan Thakor (a banking
expe

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:
: Thanks for qili's reply. Yes, this is the topic of one of my essay for
: Microeconomics. Unfortuanately, this quarter I met a very harsh professor in
: that class, who is from Singapore but can speak chinsese. ( Are all the
: Chinese professors in US enjoying torturing students?). He required everyone
: to turn in an extra essay after the final exam. And last year, he taught the
: same class and failed four out of eight. Approval voting is very hot in those
: days and mostly it is adopted by some professio

q*i2098-08-31 07:08

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If you have access to EconLit, you can do a search on related literature (voting and
game theory); other resources include Lexis/Nexis, PriMark, and Dow Jones News
Retrival (can only go back two yeras).
One related literature is on central bank decision making (on monetary policy).
Europeans are ahead in this area (von Hagen, Fratianni).
Battacharia (I may have got the spelling wrong. He's an Indian from India),
David Besanko (now in Michigan) are two good starting points two.

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