What Do We Elect Committees For? A Voting Committee Model for Multi-Winner Rules
Abstract
We present a new model that describes the process of electing a group of representatives (e.g., a parliament) for a group of voters. In this model, called the voting committee model, the elected group of representatives runs a number of ballots to make final decisions regarding various issues. The satisfaction of voters comes from the final decisions made by the elected committee. Our results suggest that depending on a decision system used by the committee to make these final decisions, different multi-winner election rules are most suitable for electing the committee. Furthermore, we show that if we allow not only a committee, but also an election rule used to make final decisions, to depend on the voters' preferences, we can obtain an even better representation of the voters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.06858,
title = {What Do We Elect Committees For? A Voting Committee Model for Multi-Winner Rules},
author = {Piotr Skowron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06858},
year = {2016}
}