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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Poundstone gives range voting his seal of blessing. Instant runoff voting ranks the candidates in order of preference while range voting offers voters the opportunity to rate all candidates based on a scale of 0 to 10. Poundstone has his clear favorit... Read More

Plurality voting is not very complicated and works very well when there are only two candidates. Elections with hundreds of thousands of voters is frequent. And this might arguably be its best use.

The author makes the complex study of voting systems accessible to the layman, and by doing so, paves the way towards a better democracy. The book is an easy-to-read and understand why and how the kind of winner-take-all plurality voting system is so ... Read More

William poundstone makes this admittedly dry subject funny and engaging through anecdotes aplenty. Poundstone is truly skilled at the way he guides you through his stories with gripping narrative.

Cons

This shortcoming misdirects people in the key second part of his subtitle -- what to do about it. Readers truly taking poundstone seriously are likely to end up * their heads against the wall -- and perhaps making them more frustrated and alienated th... Read More

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Highlights

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Quality

This combined with the assessments of the various voting systems including the opinions of various voting theorists is convincing stuff

So poundstone knows fully well about these deep global problems with the very foundations of voting and coalitions but to widen... Read More

I dont know about you but i sure am frustrated by the choices we have been presented with during the current presidential election cycle

Poundstone gives all the problems with the other voting methods but basically gives range voting his seal of blessing

Competitiveness

A nobrainer that should be implemented for all voting when you pick a single winner ie our presidential elections congressional... Read More

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This product had a total of 50 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 30 2023.