paradox of voting
Fallacy of composition – Fallacy of inferring on the whole from a part
Homo economicus – Model of humans as rational, self-interested agents
List of close election results
Majoritarianism – Political philosophy
Rational ignorance – Practice of avoiding research whose cost exceeds its benefits
Strategic nomination – Losing candidate affecting election result
Strategic voting – Choosing a candidate other than preferred to undercut a less desired one
Superrationality – Trait of a player in game theory
Related paradoxes
Condorcet cycle – Self-contradiction of majority rule
Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem – Impossibility result for ranked-choice voting systems