[EM] Re: IIA Theory

[David Catchpole]

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Craig Carey wrote:

> If Mr Saari is a proponent of Borda, then he's at about where
>  I was in the 1st week of my researches. So he is protected
>  because people won't spend time on him. What is done about
>  the missing preferences. I suppose the final decider is 
>  what US schools do or whatever.

Saari is, more or less, the US hegemony in voting theory at the moment,
the darling of Scientific American and popular mathematics mags while some
of the "old troops" in the person of Riker, etc. are slowing down.