Key Terms
11.1
Voting Methods
- majority
- plurality
- runoff election
- runoff voting system
- two-round system
- Hare Method
- preference ranking
- ranked ballot
- ranked-choice voting (RCV)
- instant runoff voting (IRV)
- Borda count method
- Borda score
- Compromise candidate
- divisive candidate
- pairwise comparison method
- Condorcet voting methods
- Condorcet candidate
- approval voting system
- approval voting ballot
- spoiler
11.2
Fairness in Voting Methods
- majority criterion
- tyranny of the majority
- Condorcet criterion
- Condorcet method
- monotonicity criterion
- up-rank
- down-rank
- independence of irrelevant alternatives criterion (IIA)
- Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
- cardinal voting system