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Reallocating Wasted Votes in Proportional Parliamentary Elections with Thresholds
Théo Delemazure, Rupert Freeman, Jérôme Lang +2
In many proportional parliamentary elections, electoral thresholds (typically 3-5%) are used to promote stability and governability by preventing the election of parties with very…
Approval with Runoff
Théo Delemazure, Jérôme Lang, Jean-François Laslier +1
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 appro…
What Do Multiwinner Voting Rules Do? An Experiment Over the Two-Dimensional Euclidean Domain
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Jean-Francois Laslier +3
We visualize aggregate outputs of popular multiwinner voting rules--SNTV, STV, Bloc, k-Borda, Monroe, Chamberlin--Courant, and HarmonicBorda--for elections generated according to t…
Fixing Match-Fixing: Optimal schedules to promote competitiveness
Mario Chater, Luc Arrondel, Jean-Pascal Gayant +1
In the last round of the FIFA World Cup group stage, games for which the outcome does not affect the selection of the qualified teams are played with little enthusiasm. Furthermore…
Multiwinner Approval Rules as Apportionment Methods
Markus Brill, Jean-François Laslier, Piotr Skowron
We establish a link between multiwinner elections and apportionment problems by showing how approval-based multiwinner election rules can be interpreted as methods of apportionment…
Modeling Representation of Minorities Under Multiwinner Voting Rules
Piotr Faliszewski, Jean-Francois Laslier, Robert Schaefer +3
The goal of this paper is twofold. First and foremost, we aim to experimentally and quantitatively show that the choice of a multiwinner voting rule can play a crucial role on the…
Reinforcement learning from comparisons: Three alternatives is enough, two is not
Benoit Laslier, Jean-Francois Laslier
The paper deals with the problem of finding the best alternatives on the basis of pairwise comparisons when these comparisons need not be transitive. In this setting, we study a re…