Sincerity and manipulation under approval voting
โ Scribed by Ulle Endriss
- Book ID
- 118811044
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 262 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-5833
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This paper investigates the problem of strategy stability and sincerity in approval voting. It gives "strong" support for Fishburn's claim that, among all nonranked voting systems, approval voting is the uniformly most sincere one whenever the number of candidates is not greater than 5.
Approval voting allows each voter to vote for as many candidates as he wishes in a multicandidate election. Previous studies show that approval voting compares favorably with other practicable election systems. The present study examines the extent to which votes for different numbers of candidates