Article ID: | iaor2012180 |
Volume: | 193 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 273 |
End Page Number: | 289 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Freixas Josep, Molinero Xavier, Roura Salvador |
Keywords: | voting systems |
We investigate voting systems with two classes of voters, for which there is a hierarchy giving each member of the stronger class more influence or important than each member of the weaker class. We deduce for voting systems one important counting fact that allows determining how many of them are for a given number of voters. In fact, the number of these systems follows a Fibonacci sequence with a