BACKGROUND In countries such as Cyprus the financial crisis and the recession have severely affected the funding and priority setting of the health care system. There is evidence highlighting the importance of population' preferences in designing priorities for health care settings. Although public preferences have been thorough analysed in many countries, there is a research gap in terms of si...

We study the (parameterized) complexity of SHIFT BRIBERY for multiwinner voting rules. We focus on the SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, and Chamberlin-Courant, as well as on approximate variants of the Chamberlin-Courant rule, since the original rule is NP-hard to compute. We show that SHIFT BRIBERY tends to be significantly harder in the multiwinner setting than in the single-winner one by showing setting...

The goal of this paper is to propose and study properties of multiwinner voting rules (with a particular focus on rules based in some way on single-winner scoring rules). We consider, e.g., SNTV, Bloc, k-Borda, STV, and several variants of Chamberlin–Courant’s and Monroe’s rules, identify two natural approaches to defining multiwinner rules, and show that many of our rules can be captured by on...

Cyprus, a European Union member state, is a small island in the Mediterranean with a population approaching 900,000 people. Cancer is the second leading cause of death; more therapeutic options for any patient with the disease are available in a central oncology centre in the capital of the island (Nicosia) and fewer therapeutic options (e.g. chemotherapy and hormone therapy only) in a few othe...

Pierre Vieyres, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Juan Sandoval, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Laurence Josserand, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Cyril Novales, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Marco Chiccoli, Laboratory Prisme, University of Orleans, Bourges, France Nicolas Morette, Laborato...

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Following the failure of the 2004 UN-led referendum, the entry of a divided Cyprus into the European Union has introduced an unprecedented anomaly within the Union’s system. This paper argues that this anomaly entails a complex pattern of contradictions between EU law and the European Union’s political perspective on Cyprus that has weakened both EU law and the European Union’s conflict-resolut...