Proxy selection in transitive proxy voting

Coercion-Resistant Proxy Voting

Strategic Proxy Voting

Despite its importance, voting in the elections of corporate boards of directors remains relatively unexplored in the empirical literature. We construct a comprehensive dataset of 3,204,890 mutual fund votes in director elections that took place between July 2003 and June 2005. We …nd substantial systematic heterogeneity in fund voting patterns: some mutual funds are management friendly, and ot...

Proxy Voting for Better Outcomes

We consider a social choice problem where only a small number of people out of a large population are sufficiently available or motivated to vote. A common solution to increase participation is to allow voters use a proxy, that is, transfer their voting rights to another voter. Considering social choice problems on metric spaces, we compare voting with and without the use of proxies to see whic...

Resolving multi-proxy transitive vote delegation

Solving a delegation graph for transitive votes is already a non-trivial task for many programmers. When extending the current main paradigm, where each voter can only appoint a single transitive delegation, to a system where each vote can be separated over multiple delegations, solving the delegation graph becomes even harder. This article presents a solution of an example graph, and a non-for...

Automating Rendezvous and Proxy Selection

As increasingly diverse networks are interconnected, the combinations of environments and applications that will coexist will make custom engineering increasingly impractical. We investigate an approach which focuses on replacing custom engineering with automated optimization of protocol specifications. Interestingly, our optimizations, grounded in recursive query optimization, map smoothly to ...