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A note on “A note on Nanson's rule”

✍ Scribed by P. C. Fishburn

Publisher
Springer US
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
50 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-5829

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✦ Synopsis

Niou's note (1987) on Nanson's rule for determining a winner from voters' preference rankings accuses several people, including Fishburn (1977), of misstating Nanson's rule. He says, for example, that I (1977: 473) describe the rule thus:

Nanson's function is a Borda elimination procedure. At each stage in a sequential process we delete all candidates who have the lowest Borda count at that stage unless all have the same Borda count. The process continues until no more candidates can be deleted. Those that remain constitute the choice set.

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