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A Consensual Committee Using Approval Balloting

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  • Subiza, Begoña

    (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría Económica)

  • Peris, Josep E.

    (Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Teoría Económica)

Abstract

A new voting rule for electing committees is described. Specifically, we use approval balloting and propose a voting procedure guaranteeing that if a committee representing (in a determined proportion) all voters exists, then the selected committee has to represent all voters at least in the same proportion. This condition is a generalization of the unanimity property and the usual voting procedures in this context do not satisfy it.

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  • Subiza, Begoña & Peris, Josep E., 2014. "A Consensual Committee Using Approval Balloting," QM&ET Working Papers 14-5, University of Alicante, D. Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory.
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    Keywords

    Approval balloting; committee election; unanimity; consensus;
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    JEL classification:

    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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