2022/05/01 by Niclas Boehmer, Piotr Faliszewski, Boehmer, Niclas +7 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Economics and business #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.00492
openalex publication_date 2022/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Motivated by putting empirical work based on (synthetic) election data on a more solid mathematical basis, we analyze six distances among elections, including, e.g., the challenging-to-compute but very precise swap distance and the distance used to form the so-called map of elections. Among the six, the latter seems to strike the best balance between its computational complexity and expressiveness.