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Several studies published during the past five years have attempted to assess the propensities of different voting procedures to elect the simple majority candidate when one exists in a multicandidate election. The present paper provides a summary of what we believe to be the most salient results of this research. The data are first discussed within the context of the assumptions used in our simulations. We then extend our interpretations to account for potential political realities that were not incorporated in the simulations.
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Fishburn, P.C., Gehrlein, W.V. Majority efficiencies for simple voting procedures: Summary and interpretation. Theor Decis 14, 141–153 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133974
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133974