title: A theory of measuring, electing, and ranking.
abstract: The impossibility theorems that abound in the theory of social choice show that there can be no satisfactory method for electing and ranking in the context of the traditional, 700-year-old model. A more realistic model, whose antecedents may be traced to Laplace and Galton, leads to a new theory that avoids all impossibilities with a simple and eminently practical method, "the majority judgement." It has already been tested.
authors.affiliation: Ecole Polytechnique and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France. michel.balinski@shs.polytechnique.fr
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balinski
authors.forename: Rida
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laraki
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D012952:Societies / Q000145:classification