[EM] math 103 website - Arrow & Saari

[Forest Simmons]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Markus Schulze wrote in part:

> of the preferences are changed when candidates are added. When we
> want to check whether a given election method can be manipulated
> by strategical nomination, then of course we have to assume that
> the opinions of the voters about the already running candidates
> don't change. Otherwise we couldn't compare the situation before
> with the situation after.

How are "strategical nomination" problems and the clone problems
related?

It seems to me that one kind of nomination strategy (in Borda) is to give
your party a boost by nominating lots of (clone) candidates.

Can every clone problem be considered a nomination strategy problem?

Are there other common nomination problems that we should watch out for?

Forest