Liquid Democracy With Two Opposing Factions (opens in new tab)

Liquid democracy is a transitive vote delegation process. Previously, the advantages of liquid democracy over direct voting have been studied in settings where there is a ground truth “good” voting outcome. In this work, we analyse liquid democracy in a realistic setting with two opposing factions without a ground truth and under uncertainty. Formally, we consider 𝑛 voters who want to decide on some binary issue by voting. Each voter has a preference in {0, 1} that represents the opinion of t...