Breaking the (Puerto Rican Condorcet) Cycle
19 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2016 Last revised: 30 Sep 2023
Date Written: April 15, 2019
Abstract
This essay contributes to the literature on Puerto Rico’s constitutional and political status by diagnosing as the decades-old impasse over Puerto Rico’s status as Condorcet cycle and by proposing a simple voting method for aggregating the political status preferences of Puerto Rico voters.
Keywords: Condorcet cycle, Bayesian voting, Puerto Rico
JEL Classification: D71, D72, H77
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Guerra-Pujol, F. E., Breaking the (Puerto Rican Condorcet) Cycle (April 15, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2817959 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2817959
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