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

[Arthur Wist]

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presentation - and it's outdated by now, albeit it's only from Summer last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/article/austrians-suggest-small-is-better/article/austrians-suggest-small-is-better/362667.html

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/apr/27/physicists-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-editorial-parkinsons-law-is-alive-and-well/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126901.300-explaining-the-curse-of-work/?full=true


Kind regards,
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