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posted on 2022-08-20, 11:45 authored by Leyla Ade, Matteo Michelini, Pietro VigianiProceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session
Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy
Leyla Ade, Matteo Michelini and Pietro Vigiani
In this paper, we compare liquid democracy to representative democracy with respect to a proportionality principle, according to which agents with higher stakes should have more voting weight. We provide a formal model of voting systems that models agents' uncertainty towards a voting issue as influenced by stakes in the issue. We formalise the delegation process in representative democracy and liquid democracy and prove that only the latter satisfies the proportionality principle.
