Approval Voting as a Method of Prediction in Political Votings. Case of Polish Elections

摘要

Applications of approval voting to political analyses are conducted. Polish 2015 presidential and parliamentary elections are considered. A question regarding voting by approval voting method was included in the voting polls. Experiments deal with polls over representative samples and give a possibility to predict a winner of the second round of presidential elections and those parliamentary coalitions which may be approved by groups of voters supporting the given parties.