TY - UNPB

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 -