Is approval voting an ‘unmitigated evil’?: A response to Brams, Fishburn, and Merrill
@article{Saari1987IsAV, title={Is approval voting an ‘unmitigated evil’?: A response to Brams, Fishburn, and Merrill}, author={Donald G. Saari and Jill Van Newenhizen}, journal={Public Choice}, year={1987}, volume={59}, pages={133-147} }
Brams, Fishburn, and Merrill (1988) contend that the indeterminacy of approval voting (AV), introduced in our paper (1988), is not a vice, but a surpassing virtue of AV. They do not compare the negative versus the positive features of AV, so their assertion remains a conjecture. Our response emphasizes the need to determine the costs of AV and to evaluate them against any merits. Moreover, by correcting and answering BFM's comments, the argument against AV becomes much stronger. This is because…
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