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The preceding paradoxes pertain primarily to single-winner choice settings. In electing representative bodies one encounters different types of problems some of which are unexpected and counterintuitive enough to qualify as paradoxes. These paradoxes point to the composition of elected bodies rather than policy alternatives. The counterintuitive features are related to the idea that the bodies are supposed to represent the electorate. Systems commonly used to achieve this objective can lead to somewhat strange outcomes.
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Nurmi, H. (1999). Paradoxes of Representation. In: Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03782-9_9
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