published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703
We study here the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ranking determined by a measurable criterion. We propose a number of natural axioms and show that an index exists that satisfies all these axioms. The paper ends with an application of the index to Italian academia.
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