[EM] Weak Condorcet winners

Warren Smith warren.wds at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 10:58:09 PDT 2011


Another example is Chile 1970.
Tomic ["centrist"]
was the Condorcet winner (and probably also range, approval) but was
not elected, indeed finished last. Allende ["leftist"] was elected.

Allende had an extremely ineffective government and fell to a coup,
which was a huge disaster for Chile.

This example totally goes against Gilmour's theory that "weak Condorcet
winners" are a bad idea since they'd be "totally ineffective" at governing.



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