The purpose of this paper is to obtain conditions on weak tournaments, which guarantee that every non-empty subset of alternatives admits a stable set. We show that every stable set always contains the core. We also show that there exists a unique stable set for each non-empty subset of alternatives which coincides with its core if and only if the weak tournament is quasi-transitive. However, a unique stable set exists for each non-empty subset of alternatives (: which may or may not coincide with its core) if and only if the weak tournament is acyclic.
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School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg, South Africa March 2003.