Minimax Condorcet method: Difference between revisions
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{{Wikipedia|Minimax Condorcet method}}
'''Minmax''' or Minimax method, also referred to as the '''Simpson-Kramer method''',<ref name="Caplin Nalebuff 1988 pp. 787–814">{{cite journal | last=Caplin | first=Andrew | last2=Nalebuff | first2=Barry | title=On 64%-Majority Rule | journal=Econometrica | publisher=[Wiley, Econometric Society] | volume=56 | issue=4 | year=1988 | issn=00129682 | jstor=1912699 | pages=787–814 | url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=c10e05dc6ea7cfa1ba1b28aa6c54e7abbf96eccc | access-date=2023-05-27}}</ref> is the name of a class of election methods based on electing the candidate with the most consistently high performance in pairwise contests with other candidates. It is sometimes also called the '''least reversal''' or '''successive reversal''' method,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-August/075781.html|title=the name of the rose|website=Election-methods mailing list archives|date=2003-08-04|last=Green-Armytage|first=J. }}</ref> although this term is ambiguous.
'''Minmax(winning votes)''' elects the candidate whose greatest pairwise loss to another candidate is the least, when the strength of a pairwise loss is measured as the number of voters who voted for the winning side.
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