Question 9.49

image 19. In a few sentences, explain why plurality voting satisfies

  1. the Pareto condition.
  2. monotonicity.

19.

(a) If everyone prefers to , for example, then has no first-place votes.

(b) Moving up a winning candidate one spot on some list neither decreases the number of first-place votes for the winning candidate nor increases the number of first-place votes for any other candidate.