The moderating effect of instant runoff voting

Elections are the core tool of democracy, where we seek to combine the preferences of a society into a single collective decision: electing a president, deciding between policy proposals, or even picking Academy Award winners. But aggregating preferences turns out to be a very tricky business; hundreds of years of research dating back to the […]

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