Quadratic voting with multiple alternatives

Jon Eguia, Nicole Immorlica (), Katrina Ligett (), Glen Weyl () and Dimitrios Xefteris
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Nicole Immorlica: Microsoft
Katrina Ligett: Hebrew University
Glen Weyl: Microsoft and Princeton

No 2019-1, Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Consider the following collective choice problem: a society of budget-constrained agents faces multiple alternatives and wants to reach an e¢ cient decision (i.e. to Nash implement the utilitarian maximum). In this paper, we propose a budget-balanced vote-buying mechanism for this setting: for each alternative, every voter can cast any number of votes, x, in support or against it, by transferring an amount x2 to the rest of the voters; and the outcome is determined by the net vote totals. We prove that as the society grows large, in every equilibrium of the mechanism, each agent's transfer converges to zero, and the probability that the mechanism chooses the socially efficient outcome converges to one.

Keywords: implementation; efficiency; mechanism design; quadratic voting; multiple alternatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D61 D71 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2019-04-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-des, nep-mic and nep-pol
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