Category
page 1Electoral system criteria
Pareto efficiency
economic concept of a state in which no reallocation of resources can make everyone at least as well off
spoiler effect
phenomenon in which support for a minor candidate results in a win by the major candidate with the less compatible ideology or platform
Condorcet criterion
electoral system criterion for systems that choose the plurality winner in a pairwise election
Smith set
set of candidates in a voting system
independence of irrelevant alternatives
axiom of decision theory and various social sciences
Mutual majority criterion
Property of electoral systems
Condorcet loser criterion
concept in some voting systems
Majority criterion
property of electoral systems