Bartholdi, Laurent and Hann-Caruthers, Wade and Josyula, Maya and Tamuz, Omer and Yariv, Leeat (2021) Equitable Voting Rules. Econometrica, 89 (2). pp. 563-589. ISSN 0012-9682. doi:10.3982/ecta17032. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210414-131421263
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Abstract
May's theorem (1952), a celebrated result in social choice, provides the foundation for majority rule. May's crucial assumption of symmetry, often thought of as a procedural equity requirement, is violated by many choice procedures that grant voters identical roles. We show that a weakening of May's symmetry assumption allows for a far richer set of rules that still treat voters equally. We show that such rules can have minimal winning coalitions comprising a vanishing fraction of the population, but not less than the square root of the population size. Methodologically, we introduce techniques from group theory and illustrate their usefulness for the analysis of social choice questions.
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Additional Information: | © 2021 The Econometric Society. Co-editor Bart Lipman handled this manuscript. Manuscript received 1 February, 2019; final version accepted 29 August, 2020; available online 3 September, 2020. We thank Wolfgang Pesendorfer for useful comments. Tamuz gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Simons Foundation, through Grant 419427. Yariv gratefully acknowledges financial support from the NSF, through Grant SES-1629613. | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | May’s theorem, equity, symmetry, group theory | ||||||||||||
Issue or Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.3982/ecta17032 | ||||||||||||
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20210414-131421263 | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 19 Apr 2021 18:27 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 19:32 |
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