Manipulation of Nanson's and Baldwin's Rules

N. Narodytska, T. Walsh, L. Xia

Election type Ordinal
Culture Urn Model
Candidates {5}
Voters {5}
Election size included non-manipulators only (for manipulators the authors do not generate preference orders)
Instances 3000
“We threw out the $20\%$ or so of problems generated in which the chosen candidate has already won before the manipulators vote.”
Parameters alpha = 1 (contagion parameter, in the paper refrerred to as a = m!)