Equivalence of Objectives in Two Candidate Elections |
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| Authors: | Patty John W |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890, U.S.A.
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the incentives facing candidates in twocandidate elections. In particular, we provide a set ofsufficient conditions for the optimal strategies of votemaximizing, plurality maximizing, and probability of victorymaximizing candidates to be identical. In addition, we examineand provide counterexamples to two oft-cited results due toHinich (1977) and Ledyard (1984) regarding the equivalence ofthese objectives in large two candidate elections. |
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