Voting

Replicating Electoral Success

A core tension in the study of plurality elections is the clash between the classic Hotelling-Downs model, which predicts that two …

Kiran Tomlinson, Tanvi Namjoshi, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg

Exclusion Zones of Instant Runoff Voting

Recent research on instant runoff voting (IRV) shows that it exhibits a striking combinatorial property in one-dimensional preference …

Kiran Tomlinson, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg

The Moderating Effect of Instant Runoff Voting

We prove that instant runoff voting favors moderate candidates in a way that plurality does not in a 1-dimensional preference model.

Kiran Tomlinson, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg

Ballot Length in Instant Runoff Voting

We theoretically and empirically investigate the impact of ballot length in instant runoff voting elections.

Kiran Tomlinson, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg