Understanding the nature of strategic voting is the holy grail of social choice theory, where game-theory, social science and recently computational approaches are all applied in order to model the incentives and behavior of voters. In a recent paper, Meir et al. (2014) made another step in this direction, by suggesting a behavioral game-theoretic model for voters under uncertainty. For a speci...

The images: can we picture to ourselves, when we hear of a plurality of images, not a collection of discrete individual images but an abundance unsurveyable and without internal di!erentiation? Just as one hears in so many languages of the waters: die Wässer, les eaux. . . . In the "ux of experience it may be no more possible to isolate a singular “image” than it is to isolate a singular “water...

We show that n 1 2 pairwise equality comparisons are necessary and su cient (in the worst case) to nd a plurality in n colored balls.

We consider best-reply dynamics for voting games in which all players are strategic and no coalitions are formed. We study the class of scoring rules, show convergence of a suitably restricted version for the plurality and veto rules, and failure of convergence for other rules including k-approval and Borda. In particular, for 3 candidates convergence fails for all rules other than plurality an...

We provide exact relations giving the probability of individual and coalitional manipulation of three specific social choice functions (Borda rule, Copeland rule, Plurality rule) in three-alternative elections when the notion of self-selectivity is imposed. The results suggest that the Borda rule is more vulnerable to coalitional manipulation than the Copeland rule and the Plurality rule. Howev...

Abstract In this work, we reflect on how different figures of alterity are targets marginalization and what implies in terms recognition political grammars that establish who can become a subject health. Based feminist decolonial contributions, discuss some ontological assumptions about the relationship between humans, non-humans, nature to broaden understanding One Health Peripheries. We also ...

We generalize the prescription realizing classical Poisson–Lie T–duality as canonical transformation to Poisson–Lie T–plurality. The key ingredient is the transformation of left–invariant fields under Poisson–Lie T–plurality. Explicit formulae realizing canonical transformation are presented and the preservation of canonical Poisson brackets and Hamiltonian density is shown. PACS: 02.30.Ik, 04....

This project reconciles historically distinct paradigms at the interface between individual and social choice theory, as well as between rational and behavioral decision theory. The authors combine a utility-maximizing prescriptive rule for sophisticated approval voting with the ignorance prior heuristic from behavioral decision research and two types of plurality heuristics to model approval v...

We propose a family of novel social choice functions. Our goal is to explore social choice functions for which ease of auditing is a primary design goal, instead of being ignored or left as a puzzle to solve later. Our proposal, “BatchVote,” creates a social choice function f from an arbitrary “inner” social choice function g, such as instant-runoff voting (IRV), and an integer B, the number of...