Measuring Majority Tyranny: Axiomatic Approach
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Keywords
Majority tyranny; single winner elections; plurality voting rule; plurality with runo ; instant runo voting; mutual majority criterion; voting rules;All these keywords.
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- Z - Other Special Topics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-07-23 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DES-2018-07-23 (Economic Design)
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