Cook, Wade D.; Kress, Moshe - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 11, pp. 1302-1310
This paper presents a general model for aggregating votes from a preferential ballot. The thrust of the model is to accord each candidate a fair assessment in terms of his overall standing vis-a-vis first place, second place, ..., kth place votes. The form of the model is a combined index \Sigma...