[EM] Re: Nanson and Borda

Rob Speer rspeer at MIT.EDU
Sun Aug 10 22:26:02 PDT 2003


On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:06:10AM -0700, Rob LeGrand wrote:
> http://www.econ.kuleuven.ac.be/ew/admin/Publications/DPS99/DPS9911.pdf . 
> Both methods always choose the voted Condorcet winner when it exists and
> always choose from the Smith set regardless.  Nanson is superior to Baldwin
> in social utility given sincere votes according to my simulations.

How do you know that Baldwin and Nanson always choose from the Smith
set? I can't find a proof of that in the paper, and I can't see an
inherent reason why they would.

-- 
Rob Speer




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