Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy

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Ade, Leyla ; Michelini, Matteo ; Vigiani, Pietro:
Proportionality in Liquid Democracy and Representative Democracy.
2022
Veranstaltung: European Summer School in Logic, Language and Computation 2022 Student Session , 8th - 19th August, 2022 , National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
(Veranstaltungsbeitrag: Kongress/Konferenz/Symposium/Tagung , Paper )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.20367702.v4

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Abstract

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.