Reevaluating the presidential runoff rule: Does a provision promote the protection of human rights?
In recent years, an increasing number of democracies have adopted a runoff rule to elect their president.Some have argued, however, that the benefits of such a rule are dubious at best.In this article, I seek to counter this claim, as I posit that a runoff rule promotes the protection of human rights by reducing outcomes that are negatively associa