Portal:Politics/Selected article/2008, week 19
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If there is a candidate who is preferred pairwise over the other candidates, when compared in turn with each of the others, the Schulze method guarantees that candidate will win. Because of this property, the Schulze method is (by definition) a Condorcet method.
Currently, the Schulze method is the most wide-spread Condorcet method. The Schulze method is used e.g. by
Many different heuristics for the Schulze method have been proposed. The most important heuristics are the path heuristic and the Schwartz set heuristic.