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A Committee Using a Simple Majority: Complementary Motions

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The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing

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In Economics, if the price that a person is willing to pay for a given quantity of one good depends on the quantity of another good that he expects to possess, the two goods are said to be complementary, in relation to his valuations.

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[On his revision copy, DB wrote: ‘In rewriting the geometry of <Chapter> 16, start with oval curves which are not intersected in more than 2 points by a vertical or horizontal straight line. They are not really ovals.’ We have not found any MSS in the Black papers to suggest that DB ever made any progress on this.]

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  1. Cf. Duncan Black and R. A. Newing, Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation [Reprinted in full as part 3].

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  2. [On his revision copy, on the page containing Figs 132-3, DB wrote, ‘Assume closed “ovals” (?), i.e., curves not interrupted in more than 2 points by a horizontal or vertical straight line. ?They are not ovals’.]

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  3. The case when the contours are other than smooth convex curves is dealt with in the monograph referred to, [reprinted as part 3].

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  1. Nuffield College, Oxford, England

    Iain McLean (Official Fellow in Politics)

  2. Nuffield College, Oxford, England

    Alistair McMillan (Research Officer)

  3. Indiana University, USA

    Burt L. Monroe (Assistant Professor of Political Science)

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  1. Nuffield College, Oxford, England

    Iain McLean (Official Fellow in Politics) (Official Fellow in Politics)

  2. Nuffield College, Oxford, England

    Alistair McMillan (Research Officer) (Research Officer)

  3. Indiana University, USA

    Burt L. Monroe (Assistant Professor of Political Science) (Assistant Professor of Political Science)

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McLean, I., McMillan, A., Monroe, B.L. (1998). A Committee Using a Simple Majority: Complementary Motions. In: McLean, I., McMillan, A., Monroe, B.L. (eds) The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4860-3_16

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