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Adding to Category:Center squeeze, and putting a Center squeeze "see also" hatnote on the #Center squeeze section
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'''Left, Center, Right''', or '''LCR''' for short, is a type of election scenario that is useful for demonstrating [[center squeeze]] and that [[house monotonicity criterion|House monotonicity]] is incompatible with the [[Condorcet criterion|Condorcet]] and [[Droop proportionality criterion|Droop proportionality]] criteria.
The pattern of the scenario is as follows:
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== Center squeeze ==
{{See also|Center squeeze}}
C is "everybody's second choice", and so is the Condorcet winner, but methods that are susceptible to [[center squeeze]] will elect either L or R. [[First Past the Post electoral system|Plurality]] elects either L or R, and [[instant-runoff voting]] (and [[Carey]]) fails to detect C's broad support and eliminates the center early. [[Descending Acquiescing Coalitions]] and [[Descending Solid Coalitions|DSC]] are also sufficiently similar to [[First Past the Post electoral system|Plurality]] to fail.
== Criterion incompatibility ==
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[[Category:Elections]]
[[Category:Political spectrum]]
[[Category:Center squeeze]]
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