Consistent representative democracy (Q2427119)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Consistent representative democracy |
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Consistent representative democracy (English)
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8 May 2008
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The author introduces a property of voting rules formalizing the notion that a voting rule should be immune to gerrymandering. He then studies the implications of this property in conjunction with other properties of voting rules and establishes several characterization results.
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social choice
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representative democracy
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majority rule
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gerrymandering
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