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The Effect of Close Elections on the Likelihood of Voting Paradoxes: Further Results in Three-Candidate Elections

Abstract

The impact of election closeness on the likelihood of monotonicity paradox has recently been studied by some authors (e.g., Lepelley et al., 2018;Miller, 2017).It was shown that the frequency of such a paradox significantly increases as elections become more closely contested.This paper aims to analyze how the closeness of an election affects other well-known paradoxes of voting.Based on the Impartial Anonymous Culture (IAC) assumption, our preliminary results show that closeness has also a significant effect on the likelihood of observing the studied voting paradoxes in the class of scoring rules and scoring elimination rules.

Research topics

  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Auction Theory and Applications

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DOI: 10.3917/redp.351.0113

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