To appove or not to approve: this is not the only question


Autoria(s): Rodríguez Alcantud, José Carlos; Laruelle, Annick
Data(s)

12/11/2012

12/11/2012

2012

Resumo

This paper deals with electing candidates. In elections voters are frequently offered a small set of actions (voting in favor of one candidate, voting blank, spoiling the ballot, and not showing up). Thus voters can express neither a negative opinion nor an opinion on more than one candidate. Approval voting partially fills this gap by asking an opinion on all candidates. Still the choice is only between approval and non approval. However non approval may mean disapproval or just indifference or even absence of suffcient knowledge for approving the candidate. In this paper we characterize the dis&approval voting rule, a natural extension of approval voting that distinguishes between indifference and disapproval.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10810/9052

RePEc:ehu:ikerla:9052

Idioma(s)

eng

Relação

Ikerlanak;2012.63

http://www.fae1-eao1.ehu.es/s0043-con/es/contenidos/informacion/00043_documentostrabajo/es_00043_do/adjuntos/IL6312.pdf

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper