Bücher von Hannu Nurmi

Beiträge: Christian Jokinen, Germany¿s Revolutionizing Strategies in 1914-1918 and the Secret Comrades-in-arms of the Finnish Jäger * Vesa Vares, The Kingdom That Never Was: Germany, Finland, and the Finnish Monarchist Project of 1918 * Detlev Pleiss, Finnish Soldiers Facing Fehrbellin: The Battle of Rathenow * Pirkko Koski, Hella Wuolijoki, Bertolt Brecht, and Multi-layered National Identity* Timo Airaksinen, Socrates Meets the Crocodile, or The Ironies of Brecht¿s and Wuolijoki¿s Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti * Klaus Reichel, Summer 1940 in Iitti: Hella Wuolijoki and Bertolt Brecht, *Judith Köbler*, Mirroring Society through the Constitutional Lens: Finland and Germany

Finnish-GermanYearbook ofPoliticalEconomyEdited by Timo AiraksinenManfred J. HollerHannu Nurmi

This book deals with 18 voting procedures used or proposed for use in elections resulting in the choice of a single winner. These procedures are evaluated in terms of their ability to avoid paradoxical outcomes. Together with a companion volume by the same authors, Monotonicity Failures Afflicting Procedures for Electing a Single Candidate, published by Springer in 2017, this book aims at giving a comprehensive overview of the most important advantages and disadvantages of procedures thereby assisting decision makers in the choice of a voting procedure that would best suit their purposes.

Voting paradoxes are unpleasant surprises encountered in voting. Since voting is and has always been an essential instrument of democratic rule, it is of some in terest to find out how voting paradoxes are being dealt with by past and present methods of voting.

Covering decision theory; game theory; mechanism design; and, games of asymmetric information, this work aims to introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics.

These problems are usually solved by resorting to some opinion aggre gating procedure, like voting. Most official decision making bodies have formally instituted procedures of voting but in informal groups such procedures are typically chosen in casu.

In democratic systems the electoral institutions provide ways of peaceful adjustment to changes in popular opinions. This book is about uncertainty as it pertains to electoral institutions. We shall also discuss how uncertainty pertains to electoral outcomes.