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BACKGROUND PAPER
AN  INTRODUCTORY  BIBLIOGRAPHY  ON
SINGLE-WINNER  VOTING METHODS

Lowell Bruce Anderson

Voice:  703-845-2148
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   e-mail:  landerso at ida.org
March 16, 1996


The publications listed below provide a good introduction to 
single-winner voting methods.


Anderson, L.B. (1994).  "Voting Theory," Chapter 16 in Operations 
Research and the Public Sector, Volume 6 of Handbooks in 
Operations Research and Management Sciences, S.M. Pollock, M.H. 
Rothkopf, and A. Barnett editors, Amsterdam, London, New York, 
Tokyo:  North-Holland, 561-584.
Fishburn, P.C. (1977).  "Condorcet Social Choice Functions," SIAM 
Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 33, No. 3, November; 469-
486.
Fishburn, P.C. and S.J. Brams (1983).  "Paradoxes of Preferential 
Voting," Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 4, September; 207-
214.
Levin, J. and B. Nalebuff (1995).  "An Introduction to Vote-Counting 
Schemes," The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 1, 
Winter; 3-26.
Niemi R.G. and W.H. Riker (1976).  "The Choice of Voting Systems," 
Scientific American, Vol. 234, No. 6, June; 21-27.
Straffin, P.D. Jr. (1980).  Topics in the Theory of Voting, UMAP 
Expository Monograph Series; Boston, Basel, Stuttgart:  Birkh„user.



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