Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5102144 | Mathematical Social Sciences | 2017 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
After determining all supporting profiles with any number of voters for any specified three-candidate pairwise majority vote outcome, a new, large class of “octahedral” probability distributions, motivated by and including IAC, is introduced to examine various three-candidate voting outcomes involving majority vote outcomes. Illustrating examples include computing each distribution's likelihood of a majority vote cycle and the likelihood that the Borda Count and Condorcet winners agree. Surprisingly, computations often reduce to a simple exercise of finding the volumes of tetrahedrons.
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Authors
Tomas J. McIntee, Donald G. Saari,