Left-right political spectrum: Difference between revisions
Add references to center and wing bias, LCR election scenario, to give information about how voting methods handle a left-right spectrum
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** [[Wikipedia:Social conservatism]]
* [[Wikipedia:Fascism]] (note: 20th century fascism opposed capitalism and liberalism.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />)
== Interactions with voting methods ==
Duncan Black proved that when the candidates distributed along a line and the voters prefer candidates closer to them, then there always exists a Condorcet winner and this candidate is closest to the median voter.<ref name="Black 1948 pp. 23–34">{{cite journal | last=Black | first=Duncan | title=On the Rationale of Group Decision-making | journal=Journal of Political Economy | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=56 | issue=1 | year=1948 | issn=00223808 | jstor=1825026 | pages=23–34 | url=https://us.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/24492_Dowding_Chapter_01.pdf | access-date=2022-03-21}}</ref> In that median voter sense, all Condorcet methods pick the optimal candidate.
However, other voting methods may be biased towards the center, like the [[Borda count]], or towards the edges of the spectrum, like [[Plurality voting]] and [[instant-runoff voting]]. A bias away from the center leads to [[center squeeze]] which can often be demonstrated by the [[Left, Center, Right|left, center, right]] election scenario.
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