Simple plurality versus plurality runoff with privately informed voters
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Simple plurality versus plurality runoff with privately informed voters
This paper compares two voting methods commonly used in presidential elections: simple plurality voting and plurality runoff. In a situation in which a group of voters have common interests but do not agree on which candidate to support due to private information, information aggregation requires them to split their support between their favorite candidates. However, if a group of voters split ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Choice and Welfare
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0176-1714,1432-217X
DOI: 10.1007/s003550200167