Review of Paradoxes Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate

摘要: Three factors motivated me to write this chapter: The recent passage (25 February 2010) by the British House of Commons Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, clause #29 which states that a referendum will be held 31 October 2011 on changing current single member plurality (aka first-past-the-post, briefly FPTP) electoral procedure for electing (highly paradoxical) alternative vote (AV) Instant Runoff ).1 Similar calls adopting are voiced also in US. My assessment both UK US continue elect their legislatures from single-member constituencies, but there exist, point view social-choice theory, considerably more desirable voting procedures candidate than FPTP AV procedures. A report Hix et al. (2010) – commissioned Academy entitled Choosing an Electoral System makes no mention standard criteria assessing designed one out two or candidates.