On the constitutional choice of a democratic voting rule: an experimental approach

摘要

The work originates from the idea that the choice of a voting rule for representative democracy should be independent from society's historical determined configuration of preferences. The paper attempts to evaluate the performance of different voting rules. The method of investigation is experimental; Different sets of agents have been artificially generated and the performance of different voting rules have been evaluated in terms of their performance relative to a simple additive social evaluation function. Our experiments suggest that "winner take all" voting schemes outperform voting schemes that are based on proportional representation.