… rules that satisfy suitable symmetries and obey the majority principle. In particular, we provide
necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of reversal symmetric majority rules …

The Marquis du Condorcet recognized 200 years ago that majority rule can produce … maximal
sets of permutations for which majority rule produces transitive results (consistent sets). …

… majority rule. Weaker assumptions are possible if we consider the generalization to super-majority
rules, also known as 8-majority rules (… form of symmetry is not essential to our results. …

… outcome matrix in the task is symmetric (with an equal payoff … ), the optimal decision rule is
a weighted majority rule, in which … m/2, the simple-majority rule, to m, the unanimous rule. We …

… This Article defends symmetry as a default rule to be applied … the law cannot rely exclusively
on symmetry; rather, asymmetrical … In particular, symmetry aligns the interests of majority and …

… rule or Symmetrical Special-Majority rule – depends on which of the three desiderata we
are prepared to sacrifice. What is at stake in this choice is summarized in Section III. …

… candidate equilibrium point,27 though symmetry conditions that are analogous to Plott’s
can be used. In the next section we provide such symmetry conditions. The necessary and suffi…

… Symmetric majority voting, in which each voter has one vote, is formulated with two natural
… be supported by a majority of the voters, and each country employs its threshold k, eg, 1 …

… These are, of course, very general formulations of the same kind of symmetry conditions that
… with a', there is some sequence of majority rule decisions (and often many such sequences) …

… The simplest technique – majority rule – … of majority rule on Yule trees under a symmetric
2-state Markovian substitution model of character state change. We show that majority rule is …