[EM] "In Praise of Manipulation" - interesting preprint

Stephen Turner smturner0 at yahoo.es
Tue Jul 25 11:08:14 PDT 2006


There's an interesting preprint by van Hees and
Dowding about manipulation (link below), in which they
argue that it sometimes could actually be beneficial.

They define 2 types of manipulation, so-called
"sincere" and "transparent", which it is argued could
be beneficial, and among other things they prove
a theorem that says that the effect of an arbitrary
manipulation can also be obtained by a sincere
manipulation as long as the voting system is
monotonic.

Mostly they deal with voting methods in which only
top-ranked preferences are counted.

Link from this page:
personal.lse.ac.uk/DOWDING/Papers.htm
(The file name contains a date and so might get
changed.)  Title of paper:
"In Praise of Manipulation"
-- 
Stephen


	
	
		
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