Samuel Merrill's 1988 book Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic refers to a 1981 paper by Nicolaus Tideman called The Relative Attractiveness of Voting Rules. Merrill writes, "Tideman studied . . . the resistance to strategic voting of the single-vote plurality, Borda, Hare, and Black systems, as well as a Condorcet completion method adapted from Dodgson . . . To assess manipulability, Tideman measured the (harmonic) mean of the fraction of the electorate required to manipulate the outcome. The Borda count and the single-vote plurality systems were found by this measure to be the most manipulable, whereas the Hare and Dodgson systems were found to be the least manipulable." Has anyone seen this paper? Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to find it?
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