None of Warren Smith's examples (as far as I know) are examples of "weak
Condorcet winners". They are examples of fairly strong Condorcet
winners. If Smith's examples are relevant, then all Condorcet winners
who would not get elected using some non-Condorcet compliant method are
"weak".
--Bob Richard
On 9/23/2011 10:58 AM, Warren Smith wrote:
Another example is Chile 1970.
Tomic ["centrist"]
was the Condorcet winner (and probably also range, approval) but was
not elected, indeed finished last. Allende ["leftist"] was elected.
Allende had an extremely ineffective government and fell to a coup,
which was a huge disaster for Chile.
This example totally goes against Gilmour's theory that "weak Condorcet
winners" are a bad idea since they'd be "totally ineffective" at governing.
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