IMD Affiliate and Summer Research Students Complete Paper on “Bloc Voting on Single-Peaked Preferences”

IMD Affiliate Jennifer Wilson, along with students Serena Pallan and Alice Park and graduate assistant Ariel Calver, recently completed a research project begun during the 2024 Summer High School Research Program. Culminating in an article titled “Bloc Voting on Single-Peaked Preferences,” the project investigated the winning coalitions that arise under Bloc voting when there are a small number of candidates and voters’ preferences are single-peaked. It also analyzed when the winning coalitions satisfy several extensions of the Condorcet criterion to multiwinner voting methods. A preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16734