AI RESEARCH

Agreement, Diversity, and Polarization Indices for Approval Elections

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.14983v1 Announce Type: cross An index is a function that given an election outputs a value between 0 and 1, indicating the extent to which this election has a particular feature. We seek indices that capture agreement, diversity, and polarization among voters in approval elections, and that are normalized with respect to saturation. By the latter we mean that if two elections differ by the fraction of candidates approved by an average voter, but otherwise are of similar nature, then they should have similar index values.