Pierre Daunou, a contemporary of Borda and Condorcet during the era of the French Revolution and active debates on alternative voting rules, proposed a rule that chooses the strong Condorcet winner if there is one, otherwise eliminates Condorcet losers and uses plurality voting on the remaining...

In a world admitting a fixed finite set of alternatives, an opinion is an orderedpair of alternatives. Such a pair expresses the idea that one alternative is superior toanother in some sense, and an opinion aggregator assigns a social relation on the set ofalternatives to every possible multiset...

The conditions of strong Condorcet winner consistency and strong Condorcet loser consistency are, in essence, universally accepted. However, there are many situations in which they are silent. The weak counterparts of these properties suffer from the fatal flaw that a weak Condorcet winner can...