Social Choice and Welfare最新文献

Allocation without transfers: a welfare-maximizing mechanism under incomplete information 无转移的分配：不完全信息下的福利最大化机制

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01552-z

Ethem Akyol

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Flexible representative democracy 灵活的代议制民主

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01543-0

Ben Abramowitz, Nicholas Mattei

{"title":"Flexible representative democracy","authors":"Ben Abramowitz, Nicholas Mattei","doi":"10.1007/s00355-024-01543-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-024-01543-0","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce Flexible Representative Democracy (FRD), a novel hybrid of Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy in which voters can alter the issue-dependent weights of a set of elected representatives. In line with the literature on Interactive Democracy, our model allows the voters to actively determine the degree to which the system is direct versus representative. However, unlike Liquid Democracy, Flexible Representative Democracy uses strictly non-transitive delegations, making delegation cycles impossible, and maintains a fixed set of accountable, elected representatives. We present Flexible Representative Democracy and analyze it using a computational approach with issues that are binary and symmetric. We compare the outcomes of various voting systems using Direct Democracy with majority voting as an ideal baseline. First, we demonstrate the shortcomings of Representative Democracy in our model. We provide NP-Hardness results for electing an ideal set of representatives, discuss pathologies, and demonstrate empirically that common multi-winner election rules for selecting representatives do not perform well in expectation. To analyze the effects of adding delegation to representative voting systems, we begin by providing theoretical results on how issue-specific delegations determine outcomes. Finally, we provide empirical results comparing the outcomes of various voting systems: Representative Democracy, Proxy Voting, and FRD with issue-specific delegations. Our results show that variants of Proxy Voting yield no discernible benefit over unweighted representatives and reveal the potential for Flexible Representative Democracy to improve outcomes as voter participation increases.","PeriodicalId":47663,"journal":{"name":"Social Choice and Welfare","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An axiomatic characterization of Split Cycle 分裂循环的公理化特征

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01539-w

Yifeng Ding, Wesley H. Holliday, Eric Pacuit

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The character of non-manipulable collective choices between two alternatives 两个备选方案之间不可操控的集体选择的特征

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01546-x

Achille Basile, K. P. S. Bhaskara Rao, Surekha Rao

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Natural interviewing equilibria in matching settings 匹配设置中的自然面试均衡

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01541-2

Allan Borodin, Joanna Drummond, Kate Larson, Omer Lev

{"title":"Natural interviewing equilibria in matching settings","authors":"Allan Borodin, Joanna Drummond, Kate Larson, Omer Lev","doi":"10.1007/s00355-024-01541-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-024-01541-2","url":null,"abstract":"A common assumption in matching markets is that both sides fully know their preferences. However, when there are many participants this may be neither realistic nor feasible. Instead, agents may have some partial (perhaps stochastic) information about alternatives and will invest time and resources to better understand the inherent benefits and tradeoffs of different choices. Using the framework of matching medical residents with hospital programs, we study strategic behaviour by residents in a setting where hospitals maintain a publicly known master list of residents (i.e., all hospitals have an identical ranking of all the residents, for example, based on grades) and residents have to decide with which hospitals to interview, before submitting their preferences to the matching mechanism. We first show the existence of pure strategy equilibrium under very general conditions. We then study the setting when residents’ preferences are drawn from a known Mallows distribution. We prove that assortative equilibrium (k top residents interview with k top hospitals, etc.) arises only when residents interview with a small number of programs. Surprisingly, such equilibria (or even weaker notions of assortative interviewing) do not exist when residents can interview with many hospital programs, even when residents’ preferences are very similar. Simulations on possible outcome equilibrium indicate that some residents will pursue a reach/safety strategy.","PeriodicalId":47663,"journal":{"name":"Social Choice and Welfare","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142191013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Matching markets with farsighted couples 为市场和有远见的夫妇牵线搭桥

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01544-z

Ata Atay, Sylvain Funck, Ana Mauleon, Vincent Vannetelbosch

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Decentralized pure exchange processes on networks 网络上分散的纯交换过程

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01542-1

Daniele Cassese, Paolo Pin

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Optimal labor income taxation: the role of the skill distribution 最优劳动所得税：技能分布的作用

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01540-3

Dingquan Miao

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Preference heterogeneity over the aspects of individual well-being: towards the construction of an applied well-being index 个人福祉各方面的偏好异质性：构建应用福祉指数

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01537-y

Adi Arad, Steven Laufer, Zohar Or Sharvit, Yaniv Reingewertz, Michael Hartal

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Probabilistic models of profiles for voting by evaluation 通过评估进行投票的概况概率模型

IF 0.9 4区经济学

Social Choice and Welfare Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1007/s00355-024-01535-0

Antoine Rolland, Jean-Baptiste Aubin, Irène Gannaz, Samuela Leoni

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