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Strategic Candidacy And Single‐Peakedness

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  • YUSUKE SAMEJIMA

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In elections, the voting outcomes are affected by strategic entries of candidates. We study a class of voting rules immune to strategic candidacy. Dutta et al. (2001) show that such rules satisfying unanimity are dictatorial if all orderings of candidates are admissible for voters’ preferences. When voters’ preferences are single‐peaked over a political spectrum, there exist non‐dictatorial rules immune to strategic candidacy. An example is the rule selecting the m‐th peak from the left among the peaks of voters’ preferences, where m is any natural number no more than the number of voters. We show that immunity from strategic candidacy with basic axioms fully characterizes the family of the m‐th leftmost peak rules.

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  • Yusuke Samejima, 2007. "Strategic Candidacy And Single‐Peakedness," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 58(4), pages 423-442, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jecrev:v:58:y:2007:i:4:p:423-442
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5876.2007.00381.x
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    1. Boniface Mbih & Issofa Moyouwou & Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, 2009. "Parliamentary voting rules and strategic candidacy," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 29(2), pages 1371-1379.
    2. Akifumi Ishihara & Shintaro Miura, 2017. "Minor candidates as kingmakers," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 170(3), pages 253-263, March.

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