Strategic Nomination - Types of Strategic Nomination

Types of Strategic Nomination

  1. Vote-splitting happens when adding similar or clone candidates decreases the chance of any of them winning, also known as a spoiler effect. Methods that are vulnerable to this include the plurality voting system and two-round runoff voting.
  2. Teaming happens when adding more candidates actually helps the chances of any of them winning, as can occur in Borda counts.
  3. Crowding happens when adding candidates affects the outcome of an election without either helping or harming the chances of their factional group, but instead affecting another group. This can occur in Copeland's method.

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