From 2eb97015d528027406e63f6d4ebb54e799f9925e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Donnay Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 14:47:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] shortening attempt 1 --- paper/paper.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/paper/paper.md b/paper/paper.md index 03bd08c..6672d64 100644 --- a/paper/paper.md +++ b/paper/paper.md @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Users can: # Statement of need -Social choice theory grew out of welfare economics in the mid-twentieth + +There has been a significant gap in the +literature of computational social choice---and in the landscape of software---between +the theory and the practice of democracy. On the software side, researchers have built a multitude of different packages for generating and analyzing elections.[^4] Most packages, to our knowledge, handle just one part of the research arc; for instance, @@ -109,7 +111,8 @@ research program to probe the properties of voting rules. Good generative models are also essential to advise reformers deciding between options in a new locality, as they enable generation of synthetic profiles keyed to the scale, demographics, and election specs -of that specific place. But most of the models in the literature, like +of that specific place. + -`VoteKit` implements many of the models described in those surveys, as +`VoteKit` implements many of the models typically used in computational social choice, as well as newer mathematical models that give users the ability to generate profiles that are designed to comport with real-world ranking behavior and particularly to generate polarized elections. Two leading @@ -208,18 +211,19 @@ the following. - A large number of case studies in ranked-choice modeling, such as studies for the city councils of Chicago, IL [@chicago_city] and - Lowell, MA [@lowell_city]; the state legislatures of Oregon and - Washington [@oregon_state; @washington_leg], and a range of county + Lowell, MA [@lowell_city]. + the state legislatures of Oregon and + - A study modeling the impact of proposed legislation called the Fair Representation Act, which would convert U.S. Congressional elections to the single transferable vote system [@FairVote]; -- A detailed study isolating the impacts of varying hypotheses about + - A peer-reviewed article for an election law audience on the impact of STV elections on minority representation [@Benade2021]; @@ -259,15 +263,15 @@ project. [Campaign Legal Center](https://perma.cc/77MM-DCPH), [FairVote](https://perma.cc/L66Z-AB4R), and many others. -[^2]: Nobel Laureates with significant work in social choice include - Arrow, Sen, Maskin, and Myerson. + -[^3]: For example, a very active research direction in computational + [^4]: See for instance the extensive array of open-source tools on the Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) community page [@ComSoc] @@ -281,7 +285,7 @@ project. applicability and that the understanding of real and synthetic data is "very limited.\" -[^5]: Spatial models assume voters rank by proximity in a metric space + [^6]: Our model of the Alaska method is an SNTV/STV hybrid that uses single non-transferable vote to choose a set of finalists, then runs