Editing Negative responsiveness (section)

=== Views ===
Social choice theorists generally agree that negative responsiveness is an especially severe issue for a voting rule.<ref name="Felsenthal-severe"/> Some have argued the mere possibility should be enough to disqualify runoff-based electoral methods, while others argue this is only true if it occurs in "easy" or "common" cases, generally meaning those without a [[Condorcet cycle]].<ref name="Gallagher"/>

[[Michael Gallagher (academic)|Gallagher]] notes some [[political scientist]]s are less concerned about negative response, arguing voters will not notice or understand it, making it appear random from their perspective and preventing exploitation by [[strategic voting|strategic voters]].<ref name="Gallagher"/> By contrast, other researchers have argued voters will predict negative response and respond by strategically down-ranking their preferred candidates, keeping it from affecting the results.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://doi.org/10.2307/1963173 | doi=10.2307/1963173 | jstor=1963173 | title=Monotonicity in Electoral Systems | last1=Austen-Smith | first1=David | last2=Banks | first2=Jeffrey | journal=The American Political Science Review | date=1991 | volume=85 | issue=2 | pages=531–537 }}</ref>