1990 Volume 17 Issue 2 Pages 16-24
It cannot be assumed a priori that the number of candidates to beselected in the first stage of two-stage votingsystems should be two. This optimality, however, is shown by Fishburn(1976)by comparing the results of the two-stage voting with those of the simple malority voting, i. e., the pair comparison rule. This paper shows the same conclusion through computer simulation, with another framework for evaluating election, and indicates that the performance of two-stage voting systems is better than that of one-stage voting systems.