Chapter13
Group Decision Games
In This Chapter
- Identifying the pitfalls of different voting systems
- Viewing voting as a cooperative game
- Making sense of veto power and dictatorship
- Measuring voter influence
- Considering one promising method
- Understanding impossibility theorems
Voting is perhaps the ultimate group decision. Whether voting on committees, in the boardroom, or in state elections, people across the world embrace voting as the key feature of democratic government. The act of voting is a powerful symbol, especially in countries transitioning from autocratic to democratic governance. Yet as much as having a vote gives citizens power, ...
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