Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Agenda-Manipulation in Ranking, 1860-2020
Author-Name: Gregorio Curello
Author-Email: gcurello@uni-bonn.de
Author-Name: Ludvig Sinander

Classification-JEL: C7, D71, D72, D8
Keywords: Voting, agenda, committee, ranking, sorting, regret, amendment

Abstract: We study the susceptibility of committee governance (e.g. by boards of directors), modelled as the collective determination
of a ranking of a set of alternatives, to manipulation of the order in which pairs of alternatives are voted on—agenda-manipulation. 
We exhibit an agenda strategy called insertion sort that allows a self-interested committee chair with no knowledge of how votes will 
be cast to do as well as if she had complete knowledge. Strategies with this ‘regret-freeness’ property are characterised by their 
efficiency, and by their avoidance of two intuitive errors. What distinguishes regret-free strategies from each other is how they 
prioritise among alternatives; insertion sort prioritises lexicographically.


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Creation-Date: 2022-10
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2022_369