Consider an election in which each of the n voters casts a vote consisting of a strict preference ranking of the three candidates A, B, and C. In the limit as n→∞, which scoring rule maximizes, under the assumption of Impartial Anonymous Culture (uniform probability distribution over...

The purpose of this work is to explore the theoretical properties of the three-valued scale evaluative voting procedure. We confront this new election method, proposed by Felsenthal [1989] and Hillinger [2004a], with a set of normative criteria generally considered by voting theorists as...