Condorcet winners on four candidates with anonymous voters

Economics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 335-340

  Gehrlein, William V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Condorcet winner; D72

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035590708     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00395-0     Document Type: Article

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