Rarely-occurring pathologies can frequently be relevantWhy problems like the Electoral College and the center squeeze in Ranked Choice Voting matter even when they don’t determine the outcome.Oct 41Oct 41
Voter Satisfaction Efficiency: Many, many resultsA quantitative answer to “Which voting methods produce the best winners?”Aug 131Aug 131
New paper: Candidate Incentive DistributionsMy new paper, Candidate Incentive Distributions: How voting methods shape electoral incentives, has been published in Electoral Studies…Jun 3Jun 3
The primordial election that is never heldHow expectations of losing a race can conceal the flaws in voting methodsMay 61May 61
FairVote’s comparison of single-winner voting methodsWhat they get right, what they get wrong, and what they leave outApr 5Apr 5
Subproportional voting methodsDesigning voting methods that lie in between proportional methods and block methodsJan 25Jan 25
Cascading Vote and Delegative Transfer Proportional SystemsTwo families of new proportional voting methodsSep 28, 2023Sep 28, 2023
Responding to Lee Drutman’s “More Parties, Better Parties”On fusion voting, party-centric reform, and how they interact with different voting methodsJul 30, 20232Jul 30, 20232
The effectiveness of dishonest strategies in different voting methodsWhich voting methods best encourage voters to vote honestly?Jun 28, 2023Jun 28, 2023
RCV and Core SupportRCV supporters cite “core support” as the reason they think it elects better winners than other system. What is it? Should we care about…Apr 25, 2023Apr 25, 2023