Justified representation in approval-based committee voting

We consider approval-based committee voting, i.e. the setting where each voter approves a subset of candidates, and these votes are then used to select a fixed-size set of winners (committee). We propose a natural axiom for this setting, which we call justified representation (JR). This axiom requir...

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Main Authors: Aziz, H, Brill, M, Conitzer, V, Elkind, E, Freeman, R, Walsh, T
Format: Journal article
Published: Springer Verlag 2017