How does the Limited Voting rule perform on 'almost party-list' elections?

Schaik, Sophie S.B. van (2023) How does the Limited Voting rule perform on 'almost party-list' elections? Bachelor's Thesis, Artificial Intelligence.

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Abstract

This research investigates the performance of Limited Voting (LV), a voting rule that allows voters to cast fewer votes than the number of candidates in the winning committee, using the ‘almost party-list profile’ representation. LV’s performance is compared to the Multi-Winner Approval Voting (AV) voting rule. The intuitive assumption is that LV can effectively represent minority groups in the winning committee, thereby enhancing diversity. To test this intuitive assumption, we simulate elections and measure the outcomes in terms of diversity (CC-score) and proportionality (PAV-score). The results demonstrate that LV outperforms AV in terms of both the CC-score and the PAV-score, indicating that LV is a promising voting rule for promoting diversity and proportionality in ‘almost party-list’ profile elections.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Los, M.D. and Christoff, Z.L.
Degree programme:	Artificial Intelligence
Thesis type:	Bachelor's Thesis
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2023 14:43
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 14:43
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/30046

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