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Combinatorial Voter Control in Elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Voter control problems model situations such as an external agent trying to affect the result of an election by adding voters, for example by convincing some voters to vote who would otherwise not attend the election.
C. Boutilier   +14 more
core   +6 more sources

Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finding Preference Profiles of Condorcet Dimension $k$ via SAT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Condorcet winning sets are a set-valued generalization of the well-known concept of a Condorcet winner. As supersets of Condorcet winning sets are always Condorcet winning sets themselves, an interesting property of preference profiles is the size of the
Geist, Christian
core  

Condorcet Winner Probabilities - A Statistical Perspective

open access: yes, 2005
A Condorcet voting scheme chooses a winning candidate as one who defeats all others in pairwise majority rule. We provide a review which includes the rigorous mathematical treatment for calculating the limiting probability of a Condorcet winner for any number of candidates and value of $n$ odd or even and with arbitrary ran k order probabilities, when ...
Krishnamoorthy, M. S., Raghavachari, M.
openaire   +2 more sources

Jean‐Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 54-65, January 2026.
Abstract This article offers a fresh analysis of Olbie (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions Olbie as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s.
MINCHUL KIM
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Gradient Procedure to Select the Best System Under Pairwise Comparisons

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), Volume 72, Issue 8, Page 1078-1096, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article considers fixed‐budget ranking and selection (R&S) problems where the performance of alternative designs can only be assessed through pairwise comparisons, a setting encountered in many applications, including player ranking in games, sports tournaments, recommender systems, image‐based search, public choice models such as voting ...
Dongyang Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Single-Elimination Brackets Fail to Approximate Copeland Winner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Single-elimination (SE) brackets appear commonly in both sports tournaments and the voting theory literature. In certain tournament models, they have been shown to select the unambiguously-strongest competitor with optimum probability.
Hulett, Reyna
core   +1 more source

The right to decide: A decision‐based perspective on corporate stakeholder governance

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, Volume 46, Issue 12, Page 3023-3047, December 2025.
Abstract Research Summary Complications arise when stakeholders with heterogeneous and potentially misaligned preferences are considered in corporate decisions. This paper examines how high‐level decision‐making corporate forums, such as boards, can address such heterogeneous claims. We identify three corporate stakeholder governance types depending on
Vitor de Barros Santos Freire   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sub‐Watershed Prioritization Using Advanced Multi‐Criteria Decision‐Making Approaches for Proactive Flood Risk Management

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2025.
Comparative Flood Potential Zoning. ABSTRACT The study prioritizes sub‐watersheds (SWs) from the Taleqan Watershed in Iran based on Flood Generation Potential (FGP) using Multi‐Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approaches, including Condorcet, Borda scoring, Fallback bargaining algorithms (Game Theory [GT]), and Best‐Worst Method (BWM), and compares the ...
Seyed Hamidreza Sadeghi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Income taxation, uncertainty and stability [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
This paper develops a political model to analyze the stability of income tax schedules. It is assumed that agents perceive any proposed alternative tax policy as more uncertain than the status quo. A tax policy is stable if it is a Condorcet winner.
Marhuenda, Francisco   +1 more
core   +4 more sources

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