Thursday, 17 March 2011

Finessing a point: augmenting the core (Review)


The competition between two election candidates is modelled in a policy space, where the voters are represented by their ideal points and the candidates by their position on the policy. A voter will support the candidate whose programme is closer to his ideal point, using Euclidean distance. The candidate supported by at least q voters, where q is the quota, is elected. For simple majority q is simply the smallest integer that is at least half of the number of voters.