Piercing numbers in approval voting

Francis Edward Su and Shira Zerbib

Mathematical Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 101, issue C, 65-71

Abstract: We survey a host of results from discrete geometry that have bearing on the analysis of geometric models of approval voting. Such models view the political spectrum as a geometric space, with geometric constraints on voter preferences. Results on piercing numbers then have a natural interpretation in voting theory, and we survey their implications for various classes of geometric constraints on voter approval sets.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2019.06.007

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