Harrison, Kane (2021) On Partial Delegation in Liquid Democracy. Bachelor's Thesis, Mathematics.
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Abstract
Liquid democracy is a proxy voting system where proxies are delegable. We examine how partial delegation can be utilised to improve the quality of a social choice; we motivate three partial delegation mechanisms and examine how they converge under the DeGroot learning process. By simulating these delegation mechanisms, we demonstrate that splitting votes to all observed agents proportional to individual accuracy is the optimal delegation mechanism for smaller networks. In particular, this is true when comparing these delegation mechanisms to direct democracy and full delegation mechanisms.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Grossi, D. and Besselink, B. |
| Degree programme: | Mathematics |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2021 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2021 10:15 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/23888 |
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