3 papers
econ.GN2026
Ballot Exhaustion in Multiwinner Single Transferable Vote Elections
David McCune, E. E. Naber
We study ballot exhaustion in multiwinner single transferable vote (STV) elections using a dataset of 1,070 Scottish local government elections comprising over 5.4 million ballots.…
econ.GN2026
Candidate Moderation under Instant Runoff and Condorcet Voting: Evidence from the Cooperative Election Study
David McCune, Matthew I. Jones, Andy Schultz +5
This article extends the analysis of Atkinson, Foley, and Ganz in "Beyond the Spoiler Effect: Can Ranked-Choice Voting Solve the Problem of Political Polarization?". Their work use…
econ.GN2024
New fairness criteria for truncated ballots in multi-winner ranked-choice elections
Adam Graham-Squire, Matthew I. Jones, David McCune
In real-world elections where voters cast preference ballots, voters often provide only a partial ranking of the candidates. Despite this empirical reality, prior social choice lit…