A Contribution to the Critique of Liquid Democracy

Authors: Ioannis Caragiannis, Evi Micha

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Research Type Theoretical We revisit a recent model by Kahng et al. [2018] and conclude with three negative results, criticizing an important assumption of their modeling, as well as liquid democracy more generally... Our proofs in Sections 3 and 4 do not use transitive delegations... we show that deciding delegations that maximize the probability to find the ground truth is a computationally hard problem. Theorem 2. Approximating the optimal value of ODP within an additive term of 1/16 is NP-hard.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Ioannis Caragiannis1 and Evi Micha2 1University of Patras, Greece 2University of Toronto, Canada
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