Abstract (may include machine translation)
In this paper, we compare liquid democracy to representative
democracy with respect to a proportionality principle, according to which agents with higher stakes should have more voting weight. We provide a formal model of voting systems that models agents’ uncertainty towards a voting issue as influenced by stakes in the issue. We formalise the delegation process in representative democracy and liquid democracy and prove that only the latter satisfies the proportionality principle.
democracy with respect to a proportionality principle, according to which agents with higher stakes should have more voting weight. We provide a formal model of voting systems that models agents’ uncertainty towards a voting issue as influenced by stakes in the issue. We formalise the delegation process in representative democracy and liquid democracy and prove that only the latter satisfies the proportionality principle.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 1-14 |
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| State | Published - 25 Jul 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | ESSLLI 33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information: ESSLLI Student Session - National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland Duration: 8 Aug 2022 → 19 Aug 2022 Conference number: 33 https://2022.esslli.eu |
Workshop
| Workshop | ESSLLI 33rd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information |
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| Country/Territory | Ireland |
| City | Galway |
| Period | 8/08/22 → 19/08/22 |
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Keywords
- Computational social choice
- Formal political theory
- Liquid democracy
- Representative Democracy
- Proportionality