MoL-2022-05: Felderhoff, Lukas (2022) Single-Peaked Electorates in Liquid Democracy. [Report]
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Liquid democracy is a voting system that allows citizens to vote directly, or to delegate their votes to a trusted individual. If delegations occur, the preferences of the electorate (set of voters choosing to vote directly) can exhibit different properties than the preferences of the entire society. One well-studied property of particular interest is single-peakedness since it guarantees problem-free aggregation of preferences into a collective choice. We investigate conditions under which delegations generate single-peaked electorates out of non-single-peaked societies. We find that the willingness of voters to delegate is critical for the existence of single-peaked electorates.
| Item Type: | Report |
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| Report Nr: | MoL-2022-05 |
| Series Name: | Master of Logic Thesis (MoL) Series |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Subjects: | Logic Philosophy |
| Depositing User: | Dr Marco Vervoort |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2022 12:25 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2022 12:25 |
| URI: | https://eprints.illc.uva.nl/id/eprint/1886 |
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