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The Kemeny rule and committees elections

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  • Eric Kamwa

    (Normandie Univ, France . UNICAEN, CREM UMR-CNRS 6211.)

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An adaptation of the Kemeny rule (Kemeny 1959) was proposed by Ratliff (2003) for committees elections. A Committee is a fixed-size subset of candidates. Ratliff (2003) showed that the elected committee under the rule he proposed is not always made of the top candidates of the Kemeny ranking. We show that when restricting the frame to three-candidate elections, the elected committee of two candidates is always made of the two top candidates of the Kemeny ranking.

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  • Eric Kamwa, 2013. "The Kemeny rule and committees elections," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(1), pages 648-654.
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    2. Kamwa, Eric, 2017. "On stable rules for selecting committees," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 36-44.

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    Keywords

    Kemeny; Committee; Condorcet committee; ranking; Ratliff.;
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    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making

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