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approval voting

Summary

approval voting is an electoral system[1]. It draws 246 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #7 of 32).[2]

Key Facts

  • approval voting is credited with the discovery of Steven Brams[3].
  • approval voting is credited with the discovery of Peter C. Fishburn[4].
  • approval voting's image is recorded as Approval ballot.svg[5].
  • approval voting's image is recorded as Approvalballotname-it.png[6].
  • approval voting's image is recorded as Vot-aprovació.jpg[7].
  • approval voting's instance of is recorded as electoral system[8].
  • approval voting's subclass of is recorded as public election[9].
  • approval voting's subclass of is recorded as cardinal voting system[10].
  • approval voting's Commons category is recorded as Approval voting[11].
  • approval voting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0tqz[12].
  • approval voting's described at URL is recorded as https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting/[13].
  • approval voting's used by is recorded as conclave[14].
  • approval voting's used by is recorded as Saeima[15].
  • approval voting's used by is recorded as Independent Party of Oregon[16].
  • approval voting's used by is recorded as Fargo[17].
  • approval voting's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'AV'}[18].
  • approval voting's uses is recorded as approval ballot[19].
  • approval voting's Ballotpedia ID is recorded as Approval_voting[20].
  • approval voting's Quora topic ID is recorded as Approval-Voting[21].
  • approval voting's named by is recorded as Robert J. Weber[22].
  • approval voting's complies with is recorded as monotonicity criterion[23].
  • approval voting's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 100479058[24].
  • approval voting's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 승인투표제[25].
  • approval voting's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C100479058[26].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Steven Brams[3], a mathematician[27], b. 1940[28], of United States[29], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[30], specialised in political science[31] and Peter C. Fishburn[4], a mathematician[32], 1936–2021[33], of United States[34], awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize[35].

Why It Matters

approval voting draws 246 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #7 of 32).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . pi.math.cornell.edu. pi.math.cornell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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