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The Pareto rule

by Ian MacIntyre

strategic voting in a modern democracy

This is actually a paper published in Theory and Decision. It is a good paper, worth a thoughful read. The paper shows that, under some attitiudes to risk, voting procedures can deliver outcomes under strategic voting which ALL voters prefer to the outcome under sincere voting. The paper shows how this improvement for everyone can be brought about by a single individual, under majority decision making, when preferences are opposed.

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Book data: Open Library