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Voting rules as statistical estimators [PDF]
We adopt an `epistemic' interpretation of social decisions: there is an objectively correct choice, each voter receives a `noisy signal' of the correct choice, and the social objective is to aggregate these signals to make the best possible guess about ...
Pivato, Marcus
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A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF SOME VOTING POWER PARADOXES [PDF]
Power indices are meant to assess the power that a voting rule confers a priori to each of the decision makers who use it. In order to test and compare them, some authors have proposed "natural" postulates that a measure of a priori voting power "should"
Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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Variable-population voting rules [PDF]
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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How Safe are “Safe” Seats? A Comparison of Voluntary and Compulsory Voting Systems
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2009 Many observers have expressed concern that low voter turnout reflects an acute shortcoming in democratic politics. One proposed remedy, making voting compulsory, has garnered increasing attention among academics over recent years.
Tim Fry, Keith Jakee, Martin Kenneally
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Optimal two stage committee voting rules [PDF]
We study option management by committee. Analysis is illustrated by tenure decisions. Our innovations are two-fold: we treat the committee's problem as one of social choice, not of information aggregation; and we endogenise the outside option: rejecting ...
Colin Rowat, Ian Ayres, Nasser Zakariya
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Approval Voting is shown to be the unique scoring rule that leads strategic voters to sincere behavior of three candidates elections in Poisson Games. However, Approval Voting can lead to insincere behavior in elections with more than three candidates ...
Nunez Matias
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Computational Aspects of Multi-Winner Approval Voting [PDF]
, 2014 We study computational aspects of three prominent voting rules that use approval ballots to elect multiple winners. These rules are satisfaction approval voting, proportional approval voting, and reweighted approval voting.
Aziz, Haris +5 more
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Hybridizing association rules with adaptive weighted decision fusion for personal credit assessment
Systems Science & Control Engineering, 2019 Credit risk has been one of the major challenges emerged from the banking industry in modern financial markets. Served as a typical method, association classification (AC) has been widely used for personal credit risk assessment.
Yue Zhang, Quansheng Huang, Kai Zhao
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A new characterization of absolute qualified majority voting [PDF]
We show that the class of absolute qualified majority voting rules are the only ones to satisfy Anonymity, Neutrality, Monotonicity, Weak Pareto and Decisiveness Non-Equivalence. When there are two alternatives x and y, the latter axiom states that if an
Nicolas Houy
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SUCCESS VERSUS DECISIVENESS: CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSION AND CASE STUDY [PDF]
In this paper, we vindicate the relevance of the notion of success or satisfaction for the normative assessment of voting rules. We provide arguments in support of this view and emphasize the conceptual and analytical differences between this notion and ...
Annick Laruelle +2 more
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