Chapter 15.2, Problem 7E

Identifying Violations of the Condorcet Criterion Answer each question for each voting situation of Exercises 5-10.

(a) Which candidate is a Condorcet candidate?

(b) Which candidate is selected by the plurality method?

(c) Which candidate is selected by the Borda method?

(d) Which candidate is selected by the Hare method?

(e) Which voting method(s)—plurality, Borda, or Hare— violate(s) the Condorcet criterion for this profile of voters?

In Exercise 15 of Section 15.1, a senator is holding a workshop. The senator asked the 21 workshop members to rank the issues of job creation j, education e, health care h, and gun control g in the order of importance to themselves and the counties they represent. The workshop members rank the issues according to the following voter profile.

Number of Voters	Ranking
6	h > j > g > e
5	e > g > j > h
4	g>j >h>e
3	j > h > g > e
3	e > j > h > g