Condorcet winning sets
An alternative is said to be a Condorcet winner of an election if it is preferred to any other alternative by a majority of voters. While this is a very attractive solution concept, many elections do not have a Condorcet winner. In this paper, we propose a set-valued relaxation of this concept, whic...
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| description | An alternative is said to be a Condorcet winner of an election if it is preferred to any other alternative by a majority of voters. While this is a very attractive solution concept, many elections do not have a Condorcet winner. In this paper, we propose a set-valued relaxation of this concept, which we call a Condorcet winning set: such sets consist of alternatives that collectively dominate any other alternative. We also consider a more general version of this concept, where instead of domination by a majority of voters we require domination by a given fraction (Formula presented.) of voters; we refer to such sets as (Formula presented.)-winning sets. We explore social choice-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of these solution concepts, both theoretically and empirically. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:137f85d5-324b-44d7-bb3c-ee1af81960f32022-03-26T10:14:15ZCondorcet winning setsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:137f85d5-324b-44d7-bb3c-ee1af81960f3Symplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer-Verlag2015Elkind, ELang, JSaffidine, AAn alternative is said to be a Condorcet winner of an election if it is preferred to any other alternative by a majority of voters. While this is a very attractive solution concept, many elections do not have a Condorcet winner. In this paper, we propose a set-valued relaxation of this concept, which we call a Condorcet winning set: such sets consist of alternatives that collectively dominate any other alternative. We also consider a more general version of this concept, where instead of domination by a majority of voters we require domination by a given fraction (Formula presented.) of voters; we refer to such sets as (Formula presented.)-winning sets. We explore social choice-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of these solution concepts, both theoretically and empirically. |
| spellingShingle | Elkind, E Lang, J Saffidine, A Condorcet winning sets |
| title | Condorcet winning sets |
| title_full | Condorcet winning sets |
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| title_short | Condorcet winning sets |
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