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What are desirable characteristics of voting systems for environmental decisions?
What are desirable characteristics of voting systems for environmental decisions?
- Complexity, uncertainty, and flaws
- Transitivity, completeness, and Pareto optimality (correct)
- Majority rule, strategic manipulation, and knowledge of alliances
- Inefficiency, incompleteness, and instability
Which voting systems are mentioned as potentially useful for environmental decision making?
Which voting systems are mentioned as potentially useful for environmental decision making?
- Simple majority, approval, and preferential voting (correct)
- Plurality, cumulative, and Borda count
- Instant-runoff, Condorcet method, and Bucklin voting
- Range voting, runoff voting, and single transferable vote
What may decision makers and strategic voters manipulate if they have knowledge of the voting patterns and alliances?
What may decision makers and strategic voters manipulate if they have knowledge of the voting patterns and alliances?
- Conservation priorities
- Voting methods (correct)
- Environmental decisions
- Group transparency
Why do the authors not endorse one method of voting systems for environmental decisions?
Why do the authors not endorse one method of voting systems for environmental decisions?
What is urged by the authors in relation to the properties of proposed voting systems?
What is urged by the authors in relation to the properties of proposed voting systems?