ABSTRACT
Condorcet’s phenomenon of cyclic majorities [34] occurs when the individuals in N have transitive binary preferences on the alterna tives in X that lead to intransitive majority comparisons. The simplest example of this has N = {1, 2, 3} and X = {a, by c} with the following preference rankings for the three individuals:
1 . abc (1 prefers a to b to c) 2. cab (2 prefers c to a to b ) 3. bca (3 prefers b to c to a).
