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EXPERIMENTALLY TESTING THE BORDA COUNT AND PLURALITY VOTING WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES

Authors:
Xinxin Fang and Philip Liang

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Xinxin Fang1 and Philip Liang2
1. The Episcopal Academy, Pennsylvania
2. College of Business and Public Management, Wenzhou-Kean University

MLA 8
Fang, Xinxin, and Philip Liang. "EXPERIMENTALLY TESTING THE BORDA COUNT AND PLURALITY VOTING WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 6, no. 9, Sept. 2021, pp. 3322-3338, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.017. Accessed Sept. 2021.
APA 6
Fang, X., & Liang, P. (2021, September). EXPERIMENTALLY TESTING THE BORDA COUNT AND PLURALITY VOTING WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 6(9), 3322-3338. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.017
Chicago
Fang, Xinxin, and Philip Liang. "EXPERIMENTALLY TESTING THE BORDA COUNT AND PLURALITY VOTING WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 9 (September 2021), 3322-3338. Accessed September, 2021. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.017.

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Abstract:
Scholars have investigated the relative merit of plurality voting and the Borda count to guide the design of elections. Under plurality voting, each voter casts one vote, and the option with the most votes wins. In the Borda count, participants rank n candidates on a scale where the lowest-ranked candidate gets 0 points, and the highest gets n?1 points. We conduct a survey experiment that compares the efficiency of plurality voting and the Borda count. Throughout this experiment, participants engage in decision-making processes in which we compare which type of these voting mechanisms is most effective in which participants vote honestly and strategically. We conclude that plurality voting outperforms the Borda count in our context.

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