Condorcet-loser dominance among scoring rules
Theoretical Economics
2026-04-08 v1
Abstract
This paper studies a dominance relation among scoring rules with respect to avoiding the selection of the Condorcet loser. In a voting model with three or more alternatives, we say that a scoring rule Condorcet-loser-dominates (CL-dominates) another scoring rule if the set of profiles where selects a Condorcet loser is a proper subset of the set where does. We show that the Borda rule not only CL-dominates all other scoring rules, but also is the only scoring rule that CL-dominates some scoring rule.
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@article{arxiv.2604.05916,
title = {Condorcet-loser dominance among scoring rules},
author = {Ryoga Doi and Kensei Nakamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05916},
year = {2026}
}
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