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Plurality voting predictably produces a system that swings between two polarized parties who are less acceptable to the majority but strongly preferred by interested minorities, because voters are incentivized to vote for their preferred one of the perceived top two rather than waste their vote.

So plurality voting predictably leads to a system which swings between two polarized parties who are less acceptable to the majority, but strongly preferred by interested minorities—Duverger's Law.

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021), Application to network forking, p. 7
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

• plurality voting rules
• voters who want their vote to matter

mechanismsupport: arguedfailure: duverger-polarizationfamily: governance-participation-collapsegovernance-design

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