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Approval with Runoff

Computer Science and Game Theory 2023-01-27 v2

Abstract

We define a family of runoff rules that work as follows: voters cast approval ballots over candidates; two finalists are selected; and the winner is decided by majority. With approval-type ballots, there are various ways to select the finalists. We leverage known approval-based committee rules and study the obtained runoff rules from an axiomatic point of view. Then we analyze the outcome of these rules on single-peaked profiles, and on real data.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02343,
  title  = {Approval with Runoff},
  author = {Théo Delemazure and Jérôme Lang and Jean-François Laslier and Remzi M. Sanver},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02343},
  year   = {2023}
}
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