Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing the scores 0, 1; range voting, allowing...

Introduction -- Elementary Logic -- Sets, Relations, Functions -- Binary Relations -- Social Choice Theoretic Framework and Arrow Impossibility Theorem -- Some Important Value-Judgments, Rules and Theorems -- Implications of Weakening of Some of Arrow Conditions -- The Method of Majority...