Title
Relationships between Borda voting and Zermelo ranking
Abstract
There are many situations wherein a group of individuals (e.g., voters, experts, sports writers) must produce an ordered list of ‘best’ alternatives selected from a given group of alternatives (e.g., candidates, proposals, sports teams). Two long established mechanisms that have been used for this task are ‘Zermelo’s Ranking Method’ (1929) and ‘Borda’s Voting Scheme’ (1781). The main purpose of this paper is to point out that they are, under certain common circumstances, identical. We then show that Zermelo’s Method can be used in situations that Borda’s Method is not designed to handle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s00355-008-0327-7
Social Choice and Welfare
Keywords
Field
DocType
Social Choice Function, Vote Method, Vote Situation, Borda Score, Positive Involvement
Welfare economics,Economics,Mathematical economics,Ranking,Voting
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
3
1432-217X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lowell Bruce Anderson100.34
Helena Dandurova200.34
James E. Falk329768.47
Lana Yeganova4899.92