[EM] A few papers on election science I'd like to point out to y'all

[Arthur Wist]

>Thanks a lot!
Glad to help! :)

>More of us should post stuff like this.
Well, in the meantime, have a new preprint, on the same topics, published
to aRxiv on Monday:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09346 - "Representing the Insincere:
Strategically Robust Proportional Representation"

Kind regards,



On 29 January 2018 at 16:09, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot! More of us should post stuff like this.
>
> 2018-01-29 8:43 GMT-05:00 Arthur Wist <arthur.wist at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry in advanced for the huge load of information all at once, but I
>> think you'll highly likely find the following quite interesting:
>>
>> On how people misunderstood the Duggan-Schwartz theorem:
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07105 - Two statements of the Duggan-Schwartz
>> theorem
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07102 -  Manipulability of consular election
>> rules
>>
>> EVERYTHING here:
>> https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ssb0yjUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
>>
>> Some key highlights from that last link above:
>>
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07580 - Achieving Proportional Representation
>> via Voting [ On which a blog post exists: https://medium.com/@haris.aziz
>> /achieving-proportional-representation-2d741871e78. Better than STV and
>> STV derivatives in all criteria? You decide! ]
>>
>> http://materials.dagstuhl.de/files/17/17261/17261.HarisAziz.Slides.pdf -
>> Proportional Representation in Approval-based Voting and Beyond. [This is a
>> presentation - and it's outdated by now, albeit it's only from Summer last
>> year.]
>>
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10415 - A polynomial-time algorithm to
>> achieve extended justified representation
>>
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06030 - Sub-committee Approval Voting and
>> Generalised Justified Representation Axiom [This generalizes large parts of
>> the mathematics of voting theory!]
>>
>> And on the topic of committees, not quite from election science, but
>> relevant nonetheless:
>>
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2202 -  To how many politicians should
>> government be left? [With a p-value of =<10^-6. And no, that's NOT a typo.]
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1684 - Parkinson's Law Quantified: Three
>> Investigations on Bureaucratic Inefficiency
>>
>> The above two papers got a bit of news & blog coverage back in the day:
>>
>> http://old.themoscowtimes.com/article/business-in-brief/arti
>> cle/austrians-suggest-small-is-better/article/austrians-
>> suggest-small-is-better/362667.html
>>
>> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/apr/27/physici
>> sts-quantify-the-coefficient-of-inefficiency
>>
>> https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080822/full/news.2008.1050.html
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/4221839/Eight-people
>> -on-committee-leads-to-decision-deadlock-scientists-say.html
>>
>> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/numbers-up-for-unlucky-
>> eight-nnt5js8jdvm
>>
>> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126902.200-editoria
>> l-parkinsons-law-is-alive-and-well/
>>
>> https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126901.300-explaini
>> ng-the-curse-of-work/?full=true
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>
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