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Spoiler effect

In social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof, and satisfy independence of irrelevant alternatives.

Art, Rhetoric & By electoral system

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Motivation

By electoral system

Spoiler campaign

Rhetoric

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Spoiler effect

Nodes141
Edges140
Triples68
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014184
Components1

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Spoiler effect

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related to United States · 21
Spoiler effect → According, Associated Press, Barry Burden, Constitution Party, Cornel West, Democratic, Democratic Party, Democrats, For, GOP, Green Party, Republican, Republican Party, Strategic, The, The US, Third, Third-party, This, United States
related to Rated voting · 10
Spoiler effect → Any, Empirical, For, Highest, If, IIA, Rated, The, Thus, Whenever
related to Tournament (Condorcet) voting · 9
Spoiler effect → American, Condorcet, For, Schulze, Some, Spoiler, The, Theoretical, This
related to Runoff systems · 8
Spoiler effect → Alaska's, As, Compared, Duverger's, Nancy Dahlstrom, Plurality-runoff, RCV, This
related to First-preference plurality · 7
Spoiler effect → For, FPP, In, The, This, United States, Vote
related to Motivation · 6
Spoiler effect → Condorcet, In, Nicolas, Politicians, Sidney Morgenbesser, The
related to Proportional representation · 4
Spoiler effect → RCV-PR, Spoiler, STV, This
see also · 2
Spoiler effect → Comparison, Smith-dominated
related to Rhetoric · 1
Spoiler effect → Spoiler

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Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityIn0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityFPP0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityFor0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityUnited States0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityThe0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityVote0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to First-preference pluralityThis0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to MotivationIn0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to MotivationSidney Morgenbesser0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to MotivationPoliticians0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to MotivationThe0.60section
Spoiler effectrelated to MotivationNicolas0.60section

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