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Properties of Multiwinner Voting Rules

Computer Science and Game Theory 2015-06-10 v1

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to propose and study properties of multiwinner voting rules which can be consider as generalisations of single-winner scoring voting rules. We consider SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, STV, and several variants of Chamberlin--Courant's and Monroe's rules and their approximations. We identify two broad natural classes of multiwinner score-based rules, and show that many of the existing rules can be captured by one or both of these approaches. We then formulate a number of desirable properties of multiwinner rules, and evaluate the rules we consider with respect to these properties.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02891,
  title  = {Properties of Multiwinner Voting Rules},
  author = {Edith Elkind and Piotr Faliszewski and Piotr Skowron and Arkadii Slinko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02891},
  year   = {2015}
}

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31 pages

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