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Vote trading and subset sums

Article
Author/s: 
Sebastian Bervoets, Vincent Merlin, Gerhard J. Woeginger
Operations Research Letters
Issue number: 
Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2015
Publisher: 
Elsevier
Year: 
2015
Journal pages: 
99-102
Journal article [1]
We analyze the complexity of vote trading problems with equal-sized voting districts. For two allied vote-swapping parties, the problem is polynomially solvable. For three parties, the problem is NP-complete.
Tags: 
Political Economy [2]
Social Choice [3]

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[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167637714001709 [2] http://www.coalitiontheory.net/research-areas/political-economy [3] http://www.coalitiontheory.net/research-areas/social-choice