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### The condorcet principle for multiwinner elections: from shortlisting to proportionality

Abstract:

We study two notions of stability in multiwinner elections that are based on the Condorcet criterion. The first notion was introduced by Gehrlein: A committee is stable if each committee member is preferred to each non-member by a (possibly weak) majority of voters. The second notion is called local stability (introduced in this paper): A size-$k$ committee is locally stable in an election with $n$ voters if there is no candidate $c$ and no group of more than $\frac{n}{k+1}$ voters such that ...

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Accepted manuscript

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10.24963/ijcai.2017/13

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Balliol College
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Oxford, MPLS, Computer Science
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Oxford, MPLS, Computer Science
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IJCAI Publisher's website
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84-90
Publication date:
2017-01-01
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pubs:679662
URN:
uri:f6e09764-dd5e-4485-9b39-4262a4e0d2de
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uuid:f6e09764-dd5e-4485-9b39-4262a4e0d2de
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pubs:679662
ISBN:
978-0-9992411-0-3
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