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Can I read The failure of Instant Runoff to accomplish the purpose for which it was adopted: a case study from Burlington Vermont on EtoBox?
The failure of Instant Runoff to accomplish the purpose for which it was adopted: a case study from Burlington Vermont by Robert Bristow-Johnson is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The failure of Instant Runoff to accomplish the purpose for which it was adopted: a case study from Burlington Vermont about?
Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV) has been marketed to "guarantee that the majority candidate is elected," to "eliminate the spoiler effect," and to empower voters, particularly those supporting third-party or independent candidates, to "vote your hopes, not your fears," which is meant to level the playing field between such candidates and those from the major-party duopoly. This paper shows that in Burlington Vermont, IRV objectively failed to deliver on these promises. However, this failure is not blamed on the use of ranked ballots, but rather on the Hare method of tallying the ballots and identifying the winner. To avoid the failure, this paper presents a variation on IRV, Bottom Two Runoff-IRV (BTR-IRV), including a template for possible legislative language.
Who reads The failure of Instant Runoff to accomplish the purpose for which it was adopted: a case study from Burlington Vermont?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Robert Bristow-Johnson
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences