Pairwise counting: Difference between revisions

ElectionMost election methods that always meet the [[Condorcet winnercriterion]] criterion or the [[Condorcet loser criterion]] use pairwise counting, but not all.<ref group=nb>[[Nanson's method|Nanson]] meets the [[Condorcet criterion]] and [[Instant-runoff voting]] meets the [[Condorcet loser criterion]].</ref>

Often these counts are arranged in a ''pairwise comparison matrix''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=q2U8jd2AJkEC&lpg=PA6&pg=PA6|title=Democracy defended|last=Mackie, Gerry.|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0511062648|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=6|oclc=252507400}}</ref> or ''outranking matrix<ref>{{CitationCite journal|title=On the Relevance of Theoretical Results to Voting System Choice|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-20441-8_10|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|work=Electoral Systems|date=2012|access-date=2020-01-16|isbn=978-3-642-20440-1|pages=255–274|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-20441-8_10|first=Hannu|last=Nurmi|editor-first=Dan S.|editor-last=Felsenthal|editor2-first=Moshé|editor2-last=Machover}}</ref>'' table such as below.