Voting Systems
Read the book chapters first, then make sure you can answer the questions in the notes. Following that, work on some skills-check problems and exercises. Then take the online quizzes.
- Reading
- 9.1, 9.2
- Skills Check
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
- Exercises
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10
- Quiz
- Take the quiz
9.1
- What is a preference list ballot?
- Why do we always assume there is an odd number of voters?
9.2
- How does majority rule work?
- What are the three desirable properties that the majority rule have?
- When do we say that a voting system is monotone?
- What system do we call a dictatorship? What system do we call imposed rule? How do those 2 systems differ?
- What does May’s theorem tell us?
- Come up with some other systems for deciding the winner in a 2-way election. Which properties do your systems violate?
- How does Condorcet’s Method work?
- What is Condorcet’s Voting Paradox?