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Domestic Misfits, Social Physics and the Problem of International Statistical Standardization
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 111-122, June 2025.ABSTRACT During the 19th century, driven by the ideas of Adolphe Quetelet, population statistics were actively being developed and debated by many nascent nation‐states. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) was one of the premier statistical organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries that possessed a very international and prestigious ...
Kathryn Barber
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On the Significance of the Absolute Margin [PDF]
, 2002 Consider the hypothesis H that a defendant is guilty (a patient has condition C), and the evidence E that a majority of h out of n independent jurors (diagnostic tests) have voted for H and a minority of k:=n-h against H.
List, Christian
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, 2023 Le "Projet d’Inventaire Condorcet" est porté par Nicolas Rieucau et s'étend sur la période 2020-2023, sous l'égide de la COMUE UPL. Le projet pédagogique, centré sur les domaines des Documents, Écritures numériques, Humanités numériques, et Patrimoines ...
eliepetit
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2018 Dans ce numéro très riche et varié, nos lecteurs n’hésiteront pas à trouver un fil rouge, qui représente l’esprit de notre revue : Condorcet. L’interdisciplinarité de sa réflexion rend sa rencontre une évidence et une nécessité pour les spécialistes des ...
Manuela Albertone
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Binary Self‐Selective Voting Rules
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules—called binary self‐selectivity—by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself in pairwise elections will choose not to do so. In Theorem 1, we show that a neutral voting rule is binary self‐selective if and only if it is universally self ...
Héctor Hermida‐Rivera +1 more
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A Strong No Show Paradox is a common flaw in Condorcet Voting Correspondences. [PDF]
The No Show Paradox (there is a voter who would rather not vote) is known to affect every Condorcet voting function. This paper analyses a strong version of this paradox (there is a voter whose favorite candidate loses the election if she votes honestly,
Joaquín Pérez
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Condorcet's Theory of Voting [PDF]
American Political Science Review, 1988 Condcrcet's criterion states that an alternative that defeats every other by a simple majority is the socially optimal choice. Condorcet argued that if the object of voting is to determine the “best” decision for society but voters sometimes make mistakes in their judgments, then the majority alternative (if it exists) is statistically most likely to ...
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Voting on Vaccinations: The Political Legitimacy of Referendums on Science‐Related Questions
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 3, June 2025.ABSTRACT In this paper, I ask whether a referendum is more legitimate than parliamentary voting as a procedure to reach a collective decision on the question of mandatory vaccinations. Since I define both procedures as applications of binary majority rule, I start by exploring the political legitimacy of such rule.
Malvina Ongaro
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CONDORCET CHOICE FUNCTIONS AND MAXIMAL ELEMENTS [PDF]
Choice functions on tournaments always select the maximal element (Condorcet winner), provided they exist, but this property does not hold in the more general case of weak tournaments.
Begoña Subiza Martínez +1 more
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[Condorcet] ; publiées par A. Condorcet O'Connor, et M.F. AragoBd. 1: 1847-1849, clxxxvj, [1] Blatt, 652 Seiten, Frontispiz ; Bd. 2: 1847, VIII, 672 Seiten ; Bd. 3: 1847, [2] Blätter, 664 Seiten ; Bd. 4: 1847, [3] Blätter, 644 Seiten ; Bd.
Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat de
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