Failures of reversal symmetry under two common voting rules

Ahmadou lô Gueye (losakhir@netcourrier.com)
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Ahmadou lô Gueye: Université Saint-Louis, Sénégal

Economics Bulletin, 2014, vol. 34, issue 3, 1970-1975

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study the likelihood of violations of reversal symmetry under two common voting rules, plurality and instant runoff. We show that plurality is much more sensitive to this phenomenon.

Keywords: Keywords: reversal symmetry; plurality; instant runoff; impartial anonymous culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 D8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-13
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