Daunou's voting rule and the lexicographic assignment of priorities

Salvador Barberà, Walter Bossert, Kotaro Suzumura
2020 Social Choice and Welfare  
Pierre Daunou, a contemporary of Borda and Condorcet during the era of the French Revolution and active debates on alternative voting rules, proposed a rule that chooses the strong Condorcet winner if there is one, otherwise eliminates Condorcet losers and uses plurality voting on the remaining candidates. We characterize his rule which combines potentially conflicting desiderata of majoritarianism by ordering them lexicographically. This contribution serves not just to remind ourselves that a
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doi:10.1007/s00355-020-01276-w fatcat:ggnm5wwwpjb53oe4ash3cehrsa