Center squeeze
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title:
Center squeeze
text:
In social choice, a center squeeze is a kind of spoiler effect common to plurality-elimination rules like the two-round system, plurality-with-primaries, and ranked-choice voting (RCV). In a center squeeze, a majority-preferred and socially-optimal candidate is eliminated in favor of a more extreme alternative. Extreme or polarizing candidates who focus on appealing to a small political base can thus "squeeze" broadly-popular candidates trapped between them, starving them of the first preference
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encyclopedia
description:
Bias of some electoral systems that favors extremists
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_squeeze
date created:
2024-05-09T04:45:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:55:35Z
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