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“It may come as a surprise to some that there is a science of elections.
It can be traced back to the Marquis de Condorcet in eighteenth
century
France, Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) in nineteenth
century
England, and Kenneth Arrow in twentieth century America. Since Arrow
published his seminal book, Social choice and individual values,
more that fifty years ago — for
which in large part he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1972 —
there have been thousands of articles and hundreds of books published on
everything from the mathematical properties of voting systems to empirical
tests of
the propensity of different systems to elect centrist candidates.
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