Several years ago, Olivier Cussac received some devastating news: Studio Condorcet, a legendary recording facility founded ...

Condorcet's criterion states that an alternative that defeats every other by a simple majority is the socially optimal choice. Condorcet argued that if the object of voting is to determine the @'best@ ...

Condorcet’s 1795 text expanded upon the belief that a press free from censorship would circulate an open debate of ideas, with rationality and truth winning out.

And yet, Condorcet argued, it’s possible for a group of error-prone decision-makers to be surprisingly good at picking the best choice. Condorcet’s logic was simple.

When this happens, no voting system can be robust. This is precisely the situation that Arrow's Impossibility Theorem is identifying. A Condorcet method is actually any voting system that selects the ...

Condorcet's Jury Theorem (CJT) provides a theoretical basis of public choice theory and political science. This paper provides an extension of CJT for random subcommittees consisting of dependent ...

The Condorcet paradox, whose origins are associated with the 18th century French philosopher, Marquis de Condorcet, is a formulation within social choice theory which postulates that even if ...

The upcoming U.S. Senate election in Texas perfectly illustrates the importance of this voting reform.” The post itself begins: “The University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government, as part of ...

The theorem is named after French philosopher and mathematician Marquis de Condorcet who outlined it in his 1785 book Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions .