[EM] Weak Condorcet winners

[Bob Richard]

I need to correct this -- all except Huntsman (if, indeed, he would be a 
Condorcet winner at all).

On 9/23/2011 11:04 AM, Bob Richard wrote:
> None of Warren Smith's examples (as far as I know) are examples of 
> "weak Condorcet winners". They are examples of fairly strong Condorcet 
> winners. If Smith's examples are relevant, then all Condorcet winners 
> who would not get elected using some non-Condorcet compliant method 
> are "weak".
>
> --Bob Richard
>
> On 9/23/2011 10:58 AM, Warren Smith wrote:
>> 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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