Condorcet Efficiency: A Preference for Indifference

W. Gehrlein and Fabrice Valognes

Working Papers from Notre-Dame de la Paix, Sciences Economiques et Sociales

Abstract: The condorcet winner in an lection is the candidate who would be able to defeat all other candidates in a series pairwise elections. The Condorcet efficiency of a voting procedure is the conditional probability that it will elect the Condorcet winner, given that a Condorcet exists. The study considers the Condorcet efficiency of weighted scoring rules (WSR's) on three candidates for large electorates when voter indifference between candidates is allowed.

Keywords: STATISTICS; PROBABILITY; GAME THEORY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2000
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