The cyclical social choice of primary vs. general election candidates: A note on the US 2016 presidential election
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The cyclical social choice of primary vs. general election candidates : A note on the US 2016 presidential election. / Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter.
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T1 - The cyclical social choice of primary vs. general election candidates
T2 - A note on the US 2016 presidential election
AU - Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - The manner in which US presidential elections are organized make them ripe for empirical manifestations of the “voting paradoxes” identified by social choice theorists. This note illustrates the general point with polling data involving the two leading Democrats and the three leading Republicans at the beginning of the 2016 presidential primaries, suggesting that all five candidates may be alternatives in one or more cyclical majorities, i.e., where no candidate cannot be beaten by at least one other
AB - The manner in which US presidential elections are organized make them ripe for empirical manifestations of the “voting paradoxes” identified by social choice theorists. This note illustrates the general point with polling data involving the two leading Democrats and the three leading Republicans at the beginning of the 2016 presidential primaries, suggesting that all five candidates may be alternatives in one or more cyclical majorities, i.e., where no candidate cannot be beaten by at least one other
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - social choice
KW - Condorcet paradox
KW - Borda paradox
KW - US presidential election 2016
KW - Hillary Clinton
KW - Bernard Sanders
KW - Donald Trump
KW - Ted Cruz
KW - Marco Rubio
M3 - Working paper
T3 - MPRA Paper
BT - The cyclical social choice of primary vs. general election candidates
PB - Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA)
ER -
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