Abstract
The preceding chapters show that even within the restricted set of voting procedures considered in the present study there is a wide range of variation with respect to performance on various criteria of goodness. None of the procedures satisfies all the criteria used above, but all have some properties to recommend them. There are at least two possibilities in terms of which to assess these findings:
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to conclude that no procedure is good enough for all purposes and, hence, we should revise our ideas of popular choices so that their results are viewed as nearly random and certainly more or less accidental, or
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to conclude that the differences in performances should be taken into account in choosing procedures for use in various settings.
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Nurmi, H. (1987). Conclusions. In: Comparing Voting Systems. Theory and Decision Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3985-1_14
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