Evaluating Committees for Representative Democracies: the Distortion and Beyond

M. Jaworski, P. Skowron

Election type Ordinal
Culture Hand-Crafted
Candidates {100}
Voters {500}
100 binary issues, each candidate and voter reports a 0/1 opinion for each issue, voters prefer candidates that agree with them on more issues (ties broken uniformly at random); committee size k = 31 (the paper mentions that for k=11 results are similar)
Instances 500
Parameters None
Notes Four different models of generating the preferences, each designed to take into account the issues that the voters care about. There are also results for weighted issues (Figure 3).