An expanding approvals rule (EAR) is a rule for multi-winner elections, which allows agents to express weak ordinal preferences (i.e., ranking with indifferences)...

legislature. Examples of quota-proportional methods include the expanding approvals rule, the method of equal shares, and the single transferable vote....

the Expanding Approvals Rule. In addition to the specific method of electing candidates, electoral systems are also characterised by their wider rules and...

approval, with voters expressing 1.6 approvals per ballot, and the two commissioners were elected from a field of 15 candidates, with 3.1 approvals per...

In social choice theory, the majority rule (MR) is a social choice rule which says that, when comparing two options (such as bills or candidates), the...

Such methods include proportional approval voting, sequential proportional approval voting, Phragmen's voting rules and the method of equal shares. In...

Plurality voting system Instant-runoff voting Approval voting Score voting Borda count Expanding Approvals Rule Specific Hermann, J. R. "A Remembrance of...

criterion: Plurality voting Instant-runoff voting Borda count Approval Voting Coombs' rule Bucklin voting (and the closely related median voting) Score...

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primaries, as those states often build momentum for leading candidates and rule out trailing candidates long before the rest of the country has even had...

B {\displaystyle B} gains a seat. An apportionment method violating this rule may encounter population paradoxes. A particularly severe variant, where...

majority—where minority preferences are by default repressed since under majority rule, majority cooperation is needed to make any change. Quadratic voting prevents...

with all three affected by center-squeeze and vote splitting. Majority-rule (or Condorcet) methods are only rarely affected by spoilers, which are limited...

voting, Coombs' rule is extremely vulnerable to strategic voting. As a result, it is more often used as an example of a pathological voting rule than a serious...

public trust in elections.[failed verification] For example, while Schulze's rule performs well by many of the criteria above, it requires an involved explanation...

a generalization of Condorcet's result on the impossibility of majority rule. It demonstrates that every ranked voting algorithm is susceptible to the...

is a voting system criterion that formalizes a stronger idea of majority rule than the Condorcet criterion. A voting system satisfies the Smith criterion...

Decision making Democracy Relative utilitarianism Highest median voting rules—similar voting method, based on medians instead of averages and verbal appreciations...

A center squeeze is a kind of spoiler effect shared by rules like the two-round system, plurality-with-primaries, and ranked choice voting. In a center...

other proportional ranked voting methods including CPO-STV, the Expanding approvals rule, and Schulze STV. See also Instant-runoff voting#Terminology. Based...

different proportional cardinal rules, often called approval-based committee rules. Phragmen's method Proportional approval voting (Thiele's method) Method...

while mathematicians and economists call them social choice rules. The study of these rules and what makes them good or bad is the subject of a branch...

The Borda method or order of merit is a positional voting rule that gives each candidate a number of points equal to the number of candidates ranked below...

are approved by more voters cost less than those that garnered fewer approvals. Bei, Lu and Suksompong extend the committee election model to a setting...

that the number of alternatives that a rule can deal with successfully is less than the Nakamura number of the rule. The Nakamura number of simple majority...

population would prefer. Similar median voter theorems exist for rules like score voting and approval voting when voters are either strategic and informed or if...

the requirements of rational choice. Specifically, Arrow showed no such rule can satisfy the independence of irrelevant alternatives axiom. This is the...

paradox is a fundamental discovery by the Marquis de Condorcet that majority rule is inherently self-contradictory. The result implies that it is logically...

declared elected. In proportional quota-based systems such as STV or expanding approvals, these excess votes can be transferred to other candidates to prevent...

common single-winner electoral system worldwide. Despite this, runoff-based rules like the two-round system and RCV have faced criticism from social choice...