Wishocracy: Solving the Democratic Principal-Agent Problem Through Pairwise Preference Aggregation

Representative democracy suffers from an inescapable principal-agent problem where elected officials' incentives diverge from citizen welfare. Wishocracy introduces RAPPA (Randomized Aggregated Pairwise Preference Allocation), which aggregates citizen preferences through cognitively tractable pairwise comparisons and creates accountability via Citizen Alignment Scores that channel electoral resources toward politicians who actually represent what citizens want.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-04
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18480097
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Game Theory and Voting Systems
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Wishocracy: Solving the Democratic Principal-Agent Problem Through Pairwise Preference Aggregation

Mike P. Sinn
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Game Theory and Voting Systems
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Wishocracy: Solving the Democratic Principal-Agent Problem Through Pairwise Preference Aggregation

Mike P. Sinn
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Abstract

Representative democracy suffers from an inescapable principal-agent problem where elected officials' incentives diverge from citizen welfare. Wishocracy introduces RAPPA (Randomized Aggregated Pairwise Preference Allocation), which aggregates citizen preferences through cognitively tractable pairwise comparisons and creates accountability via Citizen Alignment Scores that channel electoral resources toward politicians who actually represent what citizens want.

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