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Some Remarks on Dodgson's Voting Rule
Author(s) -
Brandt Felix
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mathematical logic quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.473
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1521-3870
pISSN - 0942-5616
DOI - 10.1002/malq.200810017
Subject(s) - voting , aka , majority rule , mathematical economics , mathematics , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , law , politics , library science
Sparked by a remarkable result due to Hemaspaandra et al. [9], the voting rule attributed to Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) has become one of the most studied voting rules in computational social choice. However, the computer science literature often neglects that Dodgson's rule has some serious shortcomings as a choice procedure. This short note contains four examples revealing Dodgson's deficiencies (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)