Efficiency of Fairness in Voting Systems

Frantisek Turnovec ()

No 2009/13, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: Fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters’ groups is being broadly discussed during last few years. Assuming we know what the fair representation is, there exists a problem of optimal quota: given a “fair” distribution of voting weights, how to set up voting rule (quota) in such a way that distribution of relative a priori voting power is as close as possible to distribution of relative voting weights. Together with optimal quota problem a problem of trade-off between fairness and efficiency (ability of a voting body to change status quo) is formalized by a fairness-efficiency matrix.

Keywords: Committee system; efficiency; fairness; fairness-efficiency matrix; indirect voting power; optimal quota; power indices; voting system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 D72 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2009-03, Revised 2009-03
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