Rank injustice?: How the scoring method for cross-country running competitions violates major social choice principles

Abstract The scoring method used by high schools and colleges in the U.S. to determine which team wins a cross-country meet can violate a major social choice principle, referred to here as Independence from Irrelevant Teams: whether team A is scored as defeating or losing to team B can depend on whe...
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Autor*in:

Hammond, Thomas H. [verfasserIn]

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Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2007

Schlagwörter:

Social choice theory

Sports

Cross-country meets

Transitivity

Independence from irrelevant teams

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© Springer Science+Business Media, BV 2007

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Public choice - Springer US, 1968, 133(2007), 3-4 vom: 18. Juli, Seite 359-375

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:133 ; year:2007 ; number:3-4 ; day:18 ; month:07 ; pages:359-375

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s11127-007-9193-6

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OLC2061960413

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