McGarvey's theorem

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McGarvey's theorem [1] proves that majority rule can result in any kind of societal preference ordering among the candidates. Sometimes it is called McGarvey's method.

It is often cited and used when discussing pairwise majority rule in order to construct examples with various types of preference orderings.

  1. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243774148_A_Theorem_on_the_Construction_of_Voting_Paradoxes
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