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'''Beat the Plurality Winner''' (or "'''BPW'''") is a Condorcet [[completion method]] invented and studied by [[Eivind Stensholt]] as an attempt to reduce burial incentive.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Stensholt | first=Eivind | title=Condorcet Methods - When, Why and How? | journal=SSRN Electronic Journal | publisher=Elsevier BV | year=2008 | issn=1556-5068 | doi=10.2139/ssrn.1145304}}</ref> It is mainly described for the case of three candidates. In the absence of a [[Condorcet winner]], one elects the candidate who defeats the [[first-past-the-post]] winner pairwise.
The "'''beat-the-plurality-winner''' method (or "'''BPW method'''") is a Condorcet [[completion method]] invented and studied by [[Eivind Stensholt]] as an attempt to reduce burial incentive.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Stensholt | first=Eivind | title=Condorcet Methods - When, Why and How? | journal=SSRN Electronic Journal | publisher=Elsevier BV | year=2008 | issn=1556-5068 | doi=10.2139/ssrn.1145304}}</ref> It is mainly described for the case of three candidates. In the absence of a [[Condorcet winner]], one elects the candidate who defeats the [[first-past-the-post]] winner pairwise.


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