In Silico Voting Experiments

Jean-François Laslier (1)

1 X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique

This paper presents computer simulations of voting rules: Plurality rule, Approval voting and the Copeland and Borda rules, with voters voting sincerly or strategically. Different ways of generating random preference profiles are introduced: Rousseauist cultures are suitable for common interest project assessment; Impartial cultures are standard in Social Choice Theory; Distributive cultures and Spatial Euclidean ones are standard in Political Science.

Mots clés: Social Choice. Voting Rules. Impartial Culture. Condorcet. Borda

Domaines: Science politique; Economies et finances

Jean-François Laslier. In Silico Voting Experiments. 2009. ⟨hal-00390376⟩