Voting system

External links (alphabetical by title)

• Administration and Costs of Elections Project documents on electoral systems
• Analysis and Design of Electoral Systems Proceedings of a seminar at the Mathematical Research Institute at Oberwolfach, Germany.
• Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct and Performance Article by Roger B. Myerson.(PDF)
• Can Social Solidarity be Institutionally Engineered? The Case of Presidential Elections Article by Jih-Wen Lin.
• PhD seminar on Choice Theory (PDF) Article by Robert Nau.
• Common Voting Rules as Maximum Likelihood Estimators Article by Vincent Conitzer and Tuomas Sandholm.(PDF)
• Communication Complexity of Common Voting Rules Article by Vincent Conitzer and Tuomas Sandholm.(PDF)
• Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Voting Article by David Emmanuel Gray.
• A different way to vote by AugustinMa. Of interest is the modified version of the popular phpBB bulletin board that can be found here. The board allows the users to create plurality, approval and condorcet (Schulze) polls and cast their ballots.
• Efficiency in Polling Article by Courtney Baird.
• electionmethods.org by Russ Paielli
• Electowiki A wiki that focuses on voting theory, which covers some topics not found in wikipedia. Also contains older versions of some wikipedia voting articles.
• Election methods list: A mailing list containing technical discussions about election methods
• Evaluating Voting Methods Article by Matt Corks
• The history of voting
• How Large a Coalitional Should Be to Manipulate an Election? (PDF) Article by Arkadii Slinko.
• Hybrid Voting Protocols and Hardness of Manipulation Article by Edith Elkind and Helger Lipmaa. (PDF)
• Intuitive Preference Aggregation: Tests of Independence and Consistency An article by Todd Davies and Raja Shah. (PDF)
• Is Majority Rule the Best Voting Method? Article by Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin.(PDF)
• May the Best Man Lose article on Approval voting and Borda Count by Dana Mackenzie.
• Minimal Monotonic Extensions of Scoring Rules Article by Orhan Erdem and M. Remzi Sanver. (PDF)
• A New Approach to Aggregation of Individual Choice Article by Donna Tila (PDF)
• A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method (PDF) by Markus Schulze (mirror1, mirror2)
• On the Likelihood of Condorcet's Profiles (PDF) Article by V. Merlin, M. Tataru, and F. Valognes.
• On the impact of indifferent voters on the likelihood of some voting paradoxes (PDF) Article by Vincent Merlin and Fabrice Valognes.
• ODP category on voting systems
• In Praise of Manipulation (PDF) Article by Martin van Hees and Keith Dowding.
• Preferential Voting FAQ (see glossary at the end)
• President Perot or fundamentals of voting theory illustrated with the 1992 election (PDF) Article by Alexander Tabarrok.
• pSTV -- Software for computing a variety of voting systems including IRV, STV, and Condorcet
• Stability Set as a Social Choice Correspondence Article by Mathieu Martin and Vincent Merlin.
• A Statistical Investigation of Social Choice Rules Article by Arkadii Slinko and Wayland Leung. (PDF)
• Single winner page by Mike Ossipoff
• Student's Social Choice A column by Alex Bogomolny using java applets to illustrate various concepts of choice.
• Universal voting protocol tweaks to make manipulation hard (PDF) An article by Vincent Conitzer and Tuomas Sandholm.
• Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting An article by Claude Hillinger.(PDF)
• Voting, Arbitration, and Fair Division Article by Marcus Pivato.
• Voting by Adaptive Agents in Multi-candidate Elections Article by Scott Moser.(PDF)
• Voting, Elections, Democracy, Republicanism, and the Electoral College by William C. Spaulding
• Voting methods: tutorial and essays by James Green-Armytage
• Voting Systems Article by Paul E. Johnson.