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How Should We Elect Our Leaders?

In: Economics for the Curious

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  • Eric S. Maskin

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How should we choose the leader of our country — say, the president or prime minister? The easy answer is to hold an election. But there are many possible election methods — in other words, there are many methods for determining the winner on the basis of citizens’ votes. Indeed, citizens in both the United States and France, for example, vote for their presidents, but the two countries determine the winning candidate very differently.1 Thus we need a way to compare the various methods and identify the best ones.

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  • Eric S. Maskin, 2014. "How Should We Elect Our Leaders?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robert M. Solow & Janice Murray (ed.), Economics for the Curious, chapter 0, pages 159-169, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-38359-4_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137383594_12
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    1. Salvatore Barbaro & Nils D. Steiner, 2022. "Majority principle and indeterminacy in German elections," Working Papers 2202, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

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