Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections

We consider a setting where it is known for an electorate what probability a given candidate has of beating another in a pairwise ballot. An agenda assigns candidates to the leaves of a binary tree and is called manipulative if it inverts the final winning probabilities for two candidates. We compar...

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Autores: Arlegi Pérez, Ricardo; Dimitrov, Dinko
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Estado:Accepted version
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/39334
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/39334
Nivel de acceso:Acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Agenda
Binary tree
Elections
Manipulation
Sequential voting
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description We consider a setting where it is known for an electorate what probability a given candidate has of beating another in a pairwise ballot. An agenda assigns candidates to the leaves of a binary tree and is called manipulative if it inverts the final winning probabilities for two candidates. We compare standard and symmetric agendas in four-candidate elections and show that in monotone environments the former are more manipulative.
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spelling Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections Arlegi Pérez, Ricardo Dimitrov, Dinko Agenda Binary tree Elections Manipulation Sequential voting We consider a setting where it is known for an electorate what probability a given candidate has of beating another in a pairwise ballot. An agenda assigns candidates to the leaves of a binary tree and is called manipulative if it inverts the final winning probabilities for two candidates. We compare standard and symmetric agendas in four-candidate elections and show that in monotone environments the former are more manipulative. Elsevier https://hdl.handle.net/2454/39334
spellingShingle Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
Arlegi Pérez, Ricardo
Agenda
Binary tree
Elections
Manipulation
Sequential voting
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title Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
title_full Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
title_fullStr Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
title_full_unstemmed Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
title_short Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
title_sort Manipulative agendas in four-candidate elections
topic Agenda
Binary tree
Elections
Manipulation
Sequential voting
topic_facet Agenda
Binary tree
Elections
Manipulation
Sequential voting
url https://hdl.handle.net/2454/39334