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p-Democracy a Pervasive Majority Rule

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Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues (e-Democracy 2009)

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Today, group decision making in our democratic society uses the non-ranked method. What we need is an improved method that allows decision makers to indicate not only their chosen alternative, but also their order of preference by which all alternatives will be placed. We classify this as a particular Social Choice Function, where choice is a group decision-making methodology in an ideal democratic society that gives the expression of the will of the majority. We use the Eigenvector Function to obtain individual priorities of preferences and Borda’s Function to obtain the Ranking or otherwise, the Group Choice. Our conclusions give rise to new directions for pervasive democracy with an innovative degenerative quantum scale to allow even for strong to very strong preferences.

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Antoniades, K.A. (2010). p-Democracy a Pervasive Majority Rule. In: Sideridis, A.B., Patrikakis, C.Z. (eds) Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. e-Democracy 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_39

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