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Autores principales: Durand, François, de Panafieu, Élie, Perarnau, Guillem
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author Durand, François
de Panafieu, Élie
Perarnau, Guillem
author_facet Durand, François
de Panafieu, Élie
Perarnau, Guillem
contents We study the limit CM rate of single-winner voting rules under Impartial Culture, defined as the probability that a preference profile is coalitionally manipulable in the limit of large electorates. For m = 3 candidates, Lepelley and Valognes [1999] derived a closed-form expression for Plurality with Runoff, or equivalently Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV), and showed that its limit CM rate is strictly below 1. This is remarkable because Kim and Roush [1996] established a limit of 1 for several major rules, including Maximin and all positional scoring rules except Veto. In this paper, we generalize the result of Lepelley and Valognes to any number of candidates m $\ge$ 4. We show that Plurality with Runoff has a limit CM rate equal to 1 for all m $\ge$ 4, whereas IRV retains a limit CM rate strictly below 1. To this end, we rely on the notion of Super Condorcet Winner, recently introduced by Durand [2025], which yields an upper bound on the CM rate of IRV. We prove that this bound is asymptotically tight and compute the probability that a Super Condorcet Winner exists, thereby obtaining the exact limit CM rate of IRV.
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spellingShingle Super Condorcet Winners and Limit Coalitional Manipulability of IRV
Durand, François
de Panafieu, Élie
Perarnau, Guillem
Computer Science and Game Theory
We study the limit CM rate of single-winner voting rules under Impartial Culture, defined as the probability that a preference profile is coalitionally manipulable in the limit of large electorates. For m = 3 candidates, Lepelley and Valognes [1999] derived a closed-form expression for Plurality with Runoff, or equivalently Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV), and showed that its limit CM rate is strictly below 1. This is remarkable because Kim and Roush [1996] established a limit of 1 for several major rules, including Maximin and all positional scoring rules except Veto. In this paper, we generalize the result of Lepelley and Valognes to any number of candidates m $\ge$ 4. We show that Plurality with Runoff has a limit CM rate equal to 1 for all m $\ge$ 4, whereas IRV retains a limit CM rate strictly below 1. To this end, we rely on the notion of Super Condorcet Winner, recently introduced by Durand [2025], which yields an upper bound on the CM rate of IRV. We prove that this bound is asymptotically tight and compute the probability that a Super Condorcet Winner exists, thereby obtaining the exact limit CM rate of IRV.
title Super Condorcet Winners and Limit Coalitional Manipulability of IRV
topic Computer Science and Game Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23742