This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the...

1 Introduction Mostapha Diss and Vincent Merlin -- Part IThe Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules and Related Paradoxes -- 2 Analyzing the Probability of Election Outcomes with Abstentions William V. Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley -- 3 Condorcet Efficiency of General Weighted Scoring Rules...