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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 ff Condorcet-loser-dominates (CL-dominates) another scoring rule gg if the set of profiles where ff selects a Condorcet loser is a proper subset of the set where gg 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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24 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:57:29.348Z