Approval Voting & Majority Judgment in Weighted Representative Democracy

Arnold Cédrick SOH Voutsa ()
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Arnold Cédrick SOH Voutsa: Université de Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA

No 2020-15, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: Pivato and Soh [Pivato, M., Soh, A., 2020.Weighted representative democracy. Journal of Mathematical Economics 88 (2020) 52-63] proposed a new system of democratic representation whereby any individual can choose any legislator as her representative and different legislators can represent different numbers of individuals, concomitantly determining their weights in the legislature. For such legislatures, we consider other voting rules, namely, the Weighted Approval Voting rule and Weighted Majority Judgment rule. We show that if the size of the electorate is large, then with very high probability, the decisions made by the legislature will be the same as the decisions that would have been reached by a direct democracy, as decided by the corresponding simple (unweighted) voting rules.

Keywords: Social Choice; Ideal direct democracy; Representative democracy; Multioption decisions; Weighted Approval Voting; Weighted Majority Judgment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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