Şeçmen Sayısı büyük seçimlerde bilgi üzerinden manipülasyon

This thesis studies manipulations of equilibria by candidates in two-alternativeelections along with their effects on voter turnout, winner of the election and socialwelfare where voters have common values, and both voting and manipulating are costly.We show that manipulation is not desirable for the society, and the candidates? incentivesfor manipulating can be mitigated by appropriately sequencing the order ofmanipulations. We present some results of a manipulation game which may ratherunexpected under the assumption that the candidates have prior beliefs about each others?manipulations. Finally we determine the set of manipulations which can be prevented byinformed voters for a given composition of society.