Weighted Representative Democracy

M. Pivato, Arnold Soh
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Abstract We propose a new system of democratic representation. Any voter can choose any legislator as her representative; thus, different legislators can represent different numbers of voters. Decisions in the legislature are made by weighted majority voting, where the weight of each legislator is determined by the number of voters she represents. We show that, if the size of the electorate is very large, then with very high probability, the decisions obtained in the legislature agree with those which would have been reached by a popular referendum decided by simple majority vote.
加权代议制民主
我们提出了一种新的民主代表制。任何选民都可以选择任何立法者作为她的代表;因此,不同的立法者可以代表不同数量的选民。立法机关的决定采用加权多数投票方式,每位立法者的权重由她所代表的选民数量决定。我们表明,如果选民的规模非常大,那么在立法机构中获得的决定很有可能与由简单多数投票决定的全民公决所达成的决定一致。
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