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SCW
2016
IEEE
8 years 8 months ago
Statistical evaluation of voting rules
: We generate synthetic elections using two sources of survey data, two spatial models, and two standard models from the voting literature, IAC and IC. For each election that we ge...
James Green-Armytage, T. Nicolaus Tideman, Rafael ...
SCW
2016
IEEE
8 years 8 months ago
Multiple votes, multiple candidacies and polarization
We use the citizen-candidate model to study the differential incentives that alternative voting rules provide for candidate entry, and their effect on policy polarization. In pa...
Arnaud Dellis, Mandar P. Oak
SCW
2016
IEEE
8 years 8 months ago
A note on the McKelvey uncovered set and Pareto optimality
We consider the notion of Pareto optimality under the assumption that only the pairwise majority relation is known and show that the set of necessarily Pareto optimal alternatives ...
Felix Brandt, Christian Geist, Paul Harrenstein
SCW
2016
IEEE
8 years 8 months ago
Aggregation of binary evaluations: a Borda-like approach
We characterize a rule for aggregating binary evaluations that is similar in spirit to the Borda rule from the preference aggregation literature. The framework of binary evaluatio...
Conal Duddy, Ashley Piggins, William S. Zwicker