Benoît, Jean-Pierre; Kornhauser, Lewis A. - In: Games and Economic Behavior 70 (2010) 2, pp. 261-270
In many, if not most, elections, several different seats must be filled, so that a group of candidates, or an assembly, is selected. Typically in these elections, voters cast their ballots on a seat-by-seat basis. We show that these seat-by-seat procedures are efficient only under extreme...
