caa a22 4500 475841336 CHVBK 20180406123902.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005082925477 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005082925477 Better Voting Methods Through Technology: The Refinement-Manageability Trade-Off in the Single Transferable Vote [Elektronische Daten] [Nicolaus Tideman, Daniel Richardson] The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is an attractive way of achieving representation that is proportional in terms of whatever characteristics of candidates voters value. Increasingly sophisticated methods of implementing STV have been advanced to overcome identified limitations of earlier methods. But every refinement comes at a cost of increased difficulty of understanding the vote-counting algorithm and increased cost of undertaking the count. This paper uses votes from actual elections to provide evidence about the frequency with which the choice of a particular STV method affects the outcome, and about the type of difference that different methods make. The most sophisticated STV method is CPO-STV, the comparison of pairs of outcomes by STV. This method avoids sequential exclusions and therefore overcomes the limitations of previous methods, that a paucity of votes in the early stages of a count can lead to the exclusion of a candidate who is the consensus choice of voters whose preferred candidates will be excluded at later stages of the count. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Tideman Nicolaus Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061-0316, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A. aut Richardson Daniel Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/1-2(2000-04-01), 13-34 0048-5829 103:1-2<13 2000 103 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005082925477 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005082925477 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tideman Nicolaus Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 24061-0316, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Richardson Daniel Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 91109, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/1-2(2000-04-01), 13-34 0048-5829 103:1-2<13 2000 103 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer