Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Can, Burak
Author-workplace-name: Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE ETBC
Author-Name: Csóka, Péter
Author-Name: Ergin, Emre
Author-workplace-name: Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE ETBC
Title: How to choose a delegation for a peace conference?
Abstract: This paper analyzes how to choose a delegation, a committee to represent a society such as in a peace conference. We propose normative conditions and seek optimal, consistent, neutral and non-manipulable ways to choose a delegation. We show that a novel class of threshold rules are characterized by these criteria. The rules impose that a delegation is chosen when its combined support in the society first reaches a particular percentage of the public opinion<br/>- depending on the size of the delegation. Conversely, minority opinions that are not reflected in the delegation should always be below a threshold, which follows a geometric series.
Classification-JEL: c70,d71
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20170406
Number: 008
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/11866261/RM17008.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 585649
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2017008
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2017008