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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (458)11/27/2000 7:07:21 PM
From: jcky  Read Replies (1) of 14610
 
MadDog,

Have you ever heard of Kenneth Arrow? Kenneth Arrow is a Stanford economist, who proved in 1951, that given two or more voters, and three or more choices, then there is no unique way to determine the preference of the group by examining the preferences of the individuals. How you combine the preferences (i.e., how you count the votes, what voting system you use) can change the outcome. Thus, choosing a voting system is itself a declaration of values. This is known as Arrow's Impossibility Theorem for which Kenneth Arrow received the Nobel prize in 1972.

Bush, Gore or Buchanan in Florida?

sa.ua.edu

Here is a link with a copy of his proof. It is stored in a pdf file so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the site:

socrates.berkeley.edu

There will always be an element of uncertainty in the Presidential election of 2000.

Regards,
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