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=== Electoral systems === * A well-known example in [[Social choice theory|social choice]] is [[perverse response]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Spenkuch |first=Jörg L. |date=2012 |title=Please Don’t Vote for Me: Strategic Voting in a Natural Experiment with Perverse Incentives |url=http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2047221 |journal=SSRN Electronic Journal |language=en |doi=10.2139/ssrn.2047221 |issn=1556-5068}}</ref> where a candidate can lose an election if the voters rank them higher. This occurs under [[single transferable vote]] and related systems (like [[Partisan primary|primary elections]] and the [[two-round system]]).<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last=Doron |first=Gideon |last2=Kronick |first2=Richard |date=1977 |title=Single Transferrable Vote: An Example of a Perverse Social Choice Function |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2110496 |journal=American Journal of Political Science |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=303–311 |doi=10.2307/2110496 |issn=0092-5853|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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