Binary Voting with Delegable Proxy: An Analysis of Liquid Democracy

Zoé Christoff
(University of Bayreuth)
Davide Grossi
(University of Liverpool)

The paper provides an analysis of the voting method known as delegable proxy voting, or liquid democracy. The analysis first positions liquid democracy within the theory of binary aggregation. It then focuses on two issues of the system: the occurrence of delegation cycles; and the effect of delegations on individual rationality when voting on logically interdependent propositions. It finally points to proposals on how the system may be modified in order to address the above issues.

In Jérôme Lang: Proceedings Sixteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2017), Liverpool, UK, 24-26 July 2017, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 251, pp. 134–150.
Published: 25th July 2017.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.251.10 bibtex PDF
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