I wrote the Romanian Election up (preliminarily; more work is wanted;
the most important item is to recheck and confirm the approval-poll
results) here
http://rangevoting.org/Romania2009.html
The results are not as impressive as I originally thought they were going to be.
--
Warren D. Smith
Without studying details of the three Romanian candidates and the voters'
preferences, the explanation of this majority cycle cannot be known for
sure.
However, consider a case of three very similar candidates. The voters'
preferences in each of the three possible pairings would be nearly tied
2009/12/9 seppley sepp...@alumni.caltech.edu
Without studying details of the three Romanian candidates and the voters'
preferences, the explanation of this majority cycle cannot be known for
sure.
However, consider a case of three very similar candidates. The voters'
preferences in each of
It is also interesting to separate different types of cycles.
I'll assume that the number of voters is high.
1) Weak cycle (random cycle, noise level cycle, or noise generated
cycle)
- the looped candidates are almost tied
- can be a result of some almost random variation in the votes
- one
preliminary page on Romania 2009 election now available here
http://rangevoting.org/Romania2009.html
The results are not as impressive as I originally thought they were going to
be.
--
Warren D. Smith
http://RangeVoting.org -- add your endorsement (by clicking
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I am currently working on writing a paper on this election. In the
event you or anybody can find more poll data, that'd help. I'd be
especially interested if anybody can find a range-voting-style poll.
I'm handicapped by lack of knowledge of the Romanian language.
--
Warren D. Smith
Matt Shugart covers Romanian elections at
http://fruitsandvotes.com/?cat=78
I don't think he will get into the presence or absence of Condorcet
cycles, but he may well provides links to other useful stuff. Currently
the first four or five posts on this page are on Romania.
Manuel
Warren Smith wrote:
I am currently working on writing a paper on this election. In the
event you or anybody can find more poll data, that'd help. I'd be
especially interested if anybody can find a range-voting-style poll.
I'm handicapped by lack of knowledge of the Romanian language.
If I'm
An analysis of the 1992 U.S. presidential election between Clinton, Bush
Perot suggested the voters' preferences were a majority cycle: Bush over
Clinton, Perot over Bush, and Clinton over Perot. If true, the recent
Romanian election was not the first majority cycle in a national
presidential
Hello.
It appears the Romanian 2009 presidential election, which just (allegedly) ended
with Basescu winning re-election, involved two different Condorcet
top-cycles involving
4 candidates.
The winner Basescu (elected via plurality+top2runoff) unfortunately
probably was the worst choice among the
Warren Smith wrote:
Hello.
It appears the Romanian 2009 presidential election, which just (allegedly) ended
with Basescu winning re-election, involved two different Condorcet
top-cycles involving
4 candidates.
The winner Basescu (elected via plurality+top2runoff) unfortunately
probably was the
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