[EM] Anyone got a good analysis on limitations of approval andrange voting?

Andrew Myers andru at cs.cornell.edu
Mon Nov 16 12:15:33 PST 2009


Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> This is in part Arrow's justification for dealing only with ordinal 
> (vs cardinal) preferences in the Possibility Theorem. Add may label it 
> preposterous, but it's the widely accepted view. Mine as well.
Arrow's Theorem seems like a red herring in the context of the cardinal 
vs. ordinal debate. IIA makes just as much sense when applied to range 
voting as it does to ranked voting. Arrow was just making a simplifying 
assumption and I don't see that it makes his results lose  generality.

-- Andrew



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