Re: request for reading matter

"John B. Hodges" wrote (way back on 7/8/03):
> 
> Bart Ingles wrote:
> >
> >"John B. Hodges" wrote:
> >  > I've read a book by Donald Saari, CHAOTIC ELECTIONS, in which Saari
> >>  finds unique virtues in the Borda Count and many weaknesses in
> >  > Approval. (snip) Can y'all recommend some text that
> >  > replies to Saari regarding Approval?
> >
> >Try the following four-article debate in Public Choice
> >http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0048-5829
> >(I recommend checking your university library for these):
> >
> >(1) The problem of indeterminacy in approval, multiple, and truncated
> >voting systems
> >Donald G. Saari and Jill Van Newenhizen
> >Public Choice 59: 101-120 (1988)  (c) Kluwer Academic Publishers
> >
> >(2) The responsiveness of approval voting: Comments on Saari and Van
> >Newenhizen
> >Steven J. Brams, Peter C. Fishburn, Samuel Merrill III
> >Public Choice 59: 121-131 (1988)
> >
> >(3) Is approval voting an 'unmitigated evil'?: A response to Brams,
> >Fishburn, and Merrill
> >Saari, Van Newenhizen
> >Public Choice 59:133-147
> >