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Voting Procedures: A Substitute Proposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Neil R. Paine
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This Comment proposes a new procedure for selecting a single winner in a multicandidate election. This procedure may be viewed as an offspeing of two other procedures which have been recently analysed in this journal.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 140 - 141
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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1 Nurmi, Hannu, ‘Voting Procedures: A Summary Analysis’, British Journal of Political Science, 13 (1983), 181–208.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Paine, Neil R., ‘An Extension of Nurmi's Summary Analysis of Voting Procedures’, British Journal of Political Science, 18 (1988) forthcoming.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Nurmi, , ‘Voting Procedures’, p. 198.Google Scholar

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6 A conversation with Peter Fishburn served to confirm my thoughts on this matter.

7 Brams, Steven J. and Fishburn, Peter C., Approval Voting (Boston, Mass.: Birkhäuser, 1983), p. 85.Google Scholar

8 Approval voting would invite such a voter to place X and Y in a tie. In the words of a legendary American football coach, ‘A tie is like kissing your sister’.