Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them

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Voting paradoxes reveal inconsistencies in how individual opinions are expressed and processed, leading to outcomes that seem bizarre or unfair. This book explores various voting paradoxes, emphasizing their significance in social choice theory, particularly as recognized by early theorists like Condorcet and Borda. It aims to classify these interrelated paradoxes and propose methods for addressing them, highlighting the importance of minimizing their occurrence in democratic voting systems, despite the inevitability of some paradoxes.