the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

the decision makers’ posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

We introduce 'Balanced Voting', a new voting scheme that is particularly suitable for making fundamental societal …, and others that care much less. In a two-stage procedure, Balanced Voting works as follows: Citizens may abstain from … voting on a fundamental direction in a first stage. In a second voting stage, this guarantees them a voting right on the …