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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Probabilistic view of voting, paradoxes, and manipulation
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by Elchanan Mossel;
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (2022), 297-330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1751
Published electronically: December 2, 2021

Abstract:

The Marquis de Condorcet, a French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist, studied mathematical aspects of voting in the eighteenth century. Condorcet was interested in studying voting rules as procedures for aggregating noisy signals and in the paradoxical nature of ranking three or more alternatives. We survey some of the main mathematical models, tools, and results in a theory that studies probabilistic aspects of social choice. Our journey will take us through major results in mathematical economics from the second half of the twentieth century, through the theory of Boolean functions and their influences and through recent results in Gaussian geometry and functional inequalities.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Elchanan Mossel
  • Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • MR Author ID: 637297
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-7812-7886
  • Email: elmos@mit.edu
  • Received by editor(s): December 23, 2020
  • Published electronically: December 2, 2021
  • Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF Grant CCF 1665252, DMS-1737944, DOD ONR grant N00014-17-1-2598, Simons Investigator award (622132), and Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship ONR-N00014-20-1-2826
  • © Copyright 2021 by Elchanan Mossel
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (2022), 297-330
  • MSC (2020): Primary 60-02; Secondary 91B12, 91B14
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1751
  • MathSciNet review: 4437800