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Title:
Alexis Hernández (UFRJ): A networked voting rule for democratic representation
When:
19.06.2017 16.00 h
Where:
Auditório 201 - Niterói
Category:
Seminários

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Seminário de Mecânica Estatística

 

O seminário de Mecânica Estatística será apresentado na próxima segunda-feira, 19/06/2017, às 16:00h, na sala 201 do Instituto de Física.

Título: A networked voting rule for democratic representation

Apresentador: Alexis Hernández - UFRJ

We introduce a general framework for exploring the problem of selecting a committee of representatives with the aim of studying a networked voting rule based on a decentralized large scale platform, which can assure a strong accountability of the elected. The results of our simulations suggest that this algorithm-based approach is able to obtain a high representativeness for relatively small committees, performing even better than a classical voting rule based on a closed list of candidates. We show that a general relation between committee size and representatives exists in the form of an inverse square root law and that the normalized committee size approximately scales with the inverse of the community size, allowing the scalability to very large populations. These findings are not strongly influenced by the different networks used to describe the individuals interactions, except for the presence of few individuals with very high connectivity which can have a marginal negative effect in the committee selection process.

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Group:
Auditório 201
Street:
Av. Litorânea
ZIP:
24210-346
City:
Niterói
State:
RJ
Country:
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