Combining diversity and excellence in multi winner elections

Mostapha Diss, Clinton Gubong Gassi () and Issofa Moyouwou ()
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Clinton Gubong Gassi: Université de Franche-Comté, CRESE, F-25000 Besançon, France
Issofa Moyouwou: Ecole normale supérieure, Département de mathématiques, Université de Yaoundé I, BP 47 Yaoundé, Cameroon

No 2023-05, Working Papers from CRESE

Abstract: We address the problem of electing a committee subject to diversity constraints. Given a set of candidates and a set of voters, such that each voter is represented by a linear order, the goal is to select a fixed-size subset of candidates by combining the excellence of candidates and a given form of diversity requirements. The grounding assumption in this paper is that the set of candidates is slotted into at least two groups according to a specific attribute such as gender, religion, ethnicity, or profession, and the diversity constraint takes the form of a vector of integers specifying the lowest number of candidates required from each group. We introduce a class of voting rules suitable for electing a diverse committee in this framework and we show how this class of rules handles the issue of combining both excellence and diversity. Furthermore, we provide some axiomatic properties that highlight the behavior of these rules when we aim to select a diverse committee.

Keywords: Voting; multiwinner elections; committee; diversity; axioms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2023-09
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