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Flexible Majority Rules in democracyville: A guided tour

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“Flexible Majority Rules” are rules for which the majority threshold depends on the proposal on the table. We present the core ideas of Flexible Majority Rules with a new model and survey the current state of affairs of such rules. We show that the proposal-dependency of Flexible Majority Rules can take many forms and it allows many applications. Finally, we outline new research areas and applications for Flexible Majority Rules.

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  • Gersbach, Hans, 2017. "Flexible Majority Rules in democracyville: A guided tour," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 37-43.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:85:y:2017:i:c:p:37-43
    DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2016.08.010
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