and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the … alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval …

"paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …The paper elaborates the idea that voting is an instance of the aggregation of judgments, this being a more general … has been unproblematic whenever it has been based on an independent and unrestricted scale. The scales analyzed in voting …

The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general … possibility theorem" precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be … flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are cardinal and that Arrow's result, based on preference orderings cannot …

In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting … theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow's theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow's theory … theory leaves k to be determined on pragmatic grounds. A (1,0) scale gives approval voting. I prefer the scale (1,0,-1) and …

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 …

We introduce a democratic procedure with voting-based proposals called ”Pendular Voting”. It works as follows: An … manipulability and exploitation of this voting procedure and its welfare effects. We show that manipulation is limited or absent and … that exploitation can be avoided. Regardless of whether the agenda-setter is altruistic or selfish, Pendular Voting leads …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …