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Condorcet winning sets

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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 domi...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s00355-014-0853-4

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
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Author
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Publisher's website
Journal:
Social Choice and Welfare Journal website
Volume:
44
Issue:
3
Pages:
493-517
Publication date:
2015-03-01
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ISSN:
0176-1714
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pubs:542673
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uuid:137f85d5-324b-44d7-bb3c-ee1af81960f3
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pubs:542673
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542673
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2016-01-10

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