On rational delegations in liquid democracy

Authors
Publication date 2019
Book title Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-First Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, The Ninth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Book subtitle AAAI-19, IAAI-19, EAAI-20 : January 27-February 1, 2019, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781577358091
Series Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Event 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pages (from-to) 1796-1803
Number of pages 8
Publisher Palo Alto, California: AAAI Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE)
Abstract

Liquid democracy is a proxy voting method where proxies are delegable. We propose and study a game-theoretic model of liquid democracy to address the following question: when is it rational for a voter to delegate her vote? We study the existence of pure-strategy Nash equilibria in this model, and how group accuracy is affected by them. We complement these theoretical results by means of agent-based simulations to study the effects of delegations on group's accuracy on variously structured social networks.

Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011796
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85074953834
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