Untitled Page 1 Page 2 While Ireland was once perceived as being characterised by
conservatism, Catholicism and cultural isolation, by the first decades of the twenty-first century …

The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a
small number of candidates if voters' preferences on candidates reflect any significant …

Group decision making is an important, long‐standing, and ubiquitous problem in all
societies, where collective decisions must be made by a group of agents despite individual …

In the popular debate over the use of ranked-choice voting, it is often claimed that ranked-
choice voting is less susceptible to the spoiler effect than the plurality method. We choose a …

We initiate the work towards a comprehensive picture of the worst average-case satisfaction
of voting axioms in semi-random models, to provide a finer and more realistic foundation for …

A striking attribute of instant runoff voting (IRV) is that it is subject to monotonicity failure—
that is, getting more (first-preference) votes may result in defeat for a candidate who would …

The single transferable vote (STV) voting method is used to elect multiple candidates in
ranked-choice elections. One weakness of STV is that it fails multiple fairness criteria related …

It has long been recognized that Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) suffers from a defect known as
nonmonotonicity, wherein increasing support for a candidate among a subset of voters may …

A no-show paradox occurs each time a single voter or a group of voters can manipulate the
outcome by not participating to the election process. Among other voting procedures, the …

The instant runoff voting (IRV) method fails the monotonicity criterion. This means in an IRV
election it is theoretically possible for a winning candidate to lose an election if certain …