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Selecting the Condorcet Winner: single-stage versus multi-stage voting rules
Public Choice, 2008In this paper, I study elections where voters are strategic. I find that the commonly used voting rules, such as Plurality Rule, Majority Rule, Approval Voting, and Single Transferable Vote, do not always select the Condorcet Winner and suffer from multiple equilibria. Multi-stage voting rules offer a way to get around this problem.
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The French Presidential Election of 2007: Was Sarkozy the Condorcet Winner?
French Politics, 2007Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in the runoff election held against Segolene Royal on 6 May 2007. Over 100 public preelection polls were conducted between 18 October 2006 and 21 April 2007. These polls strongly suggest that Sarkozy would not have won a series of head-to-head contests against all 11 of his opponents; that is to say, he would not have met ...
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Downsian competition in the absence of a condorcet winner [PDF]
, 2003 This paper studies studies two-party electoral competition in a setting where no policy is unbeatable. It is shown that if parties take turns in choosing platforms and observe each other's choises, altering one's platform so as to win is pointless since the other party never accepts an outcome where it is sure to loose. If there is any cost to changing
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Legislative Leaders as Condorcet Winners? The Case of the U.S. Congress
2016Legislative scholars recognize that legislative output is affected by the legislature’s institutional design. Let us assume that the goals are to avoid chaos and to enhance welfare. Toward these goals there are many variations. Strong committees (Shepsle and Weingast 1987), strong ruling parties (Cox and McCubbins 2004), institutions fostering ...
Robert S. Erikson, Yair Ghitza
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On the Probability that all Weighted Scoring Rules Elect the Condorcet Winner
Quality and Quantity, 1999Many procedures exist to determine the winner in an election, and many studies have been done to determine conditions under which each of them would work best. Much less attention has been given to the examination of how frequently these procedures tend to produce the same winner.
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Voting with interdependent values: The Condorcet winner
Games and Economic Behavior, 2023Andreas Kleiner +2 more
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