Majority judgment (MJ) is a single-winner voting system proposed in 2010 by Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. It is a kind of highest median rule, a cardinal...

Graduated majority judgment (GMJ), sometimes called the usual judgment or continuous Bucklin voting, is a single-winner rated voting rule that selects...

In social choice theory, the majority rule (MR) is a social choice rule which says that, when comparing two options (such as bills or candidates), the...

divided into a number of majority, concurring, plurality, and dissenting opinions. Only the opinion of the majority judgment is considered to have precedent-setting...

of victory for each possible pair of candidates are compared to find a majority-preferred candidate; if such a candidate exists, they are immediately elected...

sentenced Zuma to 15 months' imprisonment for contempt of court. The majority judgment was written by Acting Deputy Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe, who held...

represented by Paul Kennedy SC and the Legal Resources Centre. In a majority judgment written by Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, the Constitutional Court upheld...

November 1996 and decided on 18 April 1997. The Constitutional Court's majority judgment was written by Justice Richard Goldstone, who overturned the Supreme...

divides the typical judgment by the total number of proponents and opponents. Continuous Bucklin voting or Graduated Majority Judgment (GMJ), also called...

merits of the application. Justice Sandile Ngcobo wrote the majority judgment, a lengthy judgment that drew heavily on the principle of participatory democracy...

majority winner will always win are said to satisfy the Condorcet winner criterion. The Condorcet winner criterion extends the principle of majority rule...

rate L close to their favorites. Thus, L is elected majority judgment winner. Hence, majority judgment fails the Condorcet loser criterion. This example...

obligation to hold the President accountable for his conduct. In a majority judgment written by Justice Chris Jafta, the court ordered the National Assembly...

considered the constitutionality of employment equity measures. In a majority judgment written by Justice Dikgang Moseneke, the court upheld as lawful a...

best known for having designed a collective decision method, called majority judgment, in 2007, with another CNRS researcher, Michel Balinski. In 2011,...

The court's majority judgment was written by Justice Albie Sachs, and the full bench agreed with his exposition of section 28. The majority used this framework...

the randomized Condorcet rule is not affected by the pathology. The majority judgment rule fails as well. Instant-runoff voting and the two-round system...

Justice) and Justice O'Regan were absent. The Constitutional Court's majority judgment was co written by Chief Justice Chaskalson and Justices Ackermann...

(including approval voting). As shown below for Kemeny-Young and majority judgment, these three variants do not always agree with each other (which contrasts...

eliminations are used to simulate runoff elections. When no candidate has a majority of the votes in the first round of counting, each following round eliminates...

affirmative action clause in section 9(2) of the Bill of Rights. In a majority judgment written by Justice Dikgang Moseneke, the court held that section 9(2)...

Democracy Implicit utilitarian voting Utilitarian social choice rule Majority judgment — similar rule based on medians instead of averages "Score Voting"...

single-member and multi-member districts. As in highest median rules like the majority judgment, the Bucklin winner will be one of the candidates with the highest...

and majority judgment, they found that range voting had the highest (worst) strategic vulnerability, while their own method majority judgment had the...

on 17 May 2011 and delivered judgment on 29 November 2011. Jeremy Gauntlett represented M&G. The court's majority judgment was written by Chief Justice...

plurality) is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a majority). FPP has been used to elect part of the British House of Commons since...

satisfaction approval voting, highest median rules (including the majority judgment), and the D21 – Janeček method where voters can cast positive and...

other candidate, majority judgment can fail catastrophically. Consider the case below when n is large: A is preferred by a majority, but B's median is...

with the highest average (for score voting) or median (graduated majority judgment).: 4–5  Because Arrow's theorem no longer applies, other results are...

South Africa on 31 December 2021 with a majority judgment written by Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga. A majority of the court upheld a challenge to the constitutionality...