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Complexities of electing diverse committees

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  • Donald Saari

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Electing a committee introduces constraints beyond excellence, such as ensuring a balance of gender, tenure, talent, and other characteristics. The difficulties are captured by an actual example where every voter desired gender diversity on a committee and voted accordingly, but only men were elected. After developing the properties of certain methods that avoid these problems, other needs in this area are described. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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  • Thomas Ratliff & Donald Saari, 2014. "Complexities of electing diverse committees," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 43(1), pages 55-71, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:43:y:2014:i:1:p:55-71
    DOI: 10.1007/s00355-013-0773-8
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