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In this paper we introduce flexible majority decision rules where the size of the majority depends on the proposal made by the agenda setter. Flexible majority rules can mitigate the disadvantages of democracies in the provision of public projects. In many cases, the combination of the...
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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 …
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We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …
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In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget … theoretical results and bring the game to the laboratory. The minority wins as frequently as theory predicts, despite subjects … votes unpredictably — the exact choices are of secondary importance, a result that vouches for the robustness of the voting …
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In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget … theoretical results and bring the game to the laboratory. The minority wins as frequently as theory predicts, despite subjects … votes unpredictably -- the exact choices are of secondary importance, a result that vouches for the robustness of the voting …
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The author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first … voting rights for the second round, in which the financing scheme is determined. In the second round, the unanimity rule or … voting and simple majority voting and outline the research program. -- …
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We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a … rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and voting rights … majority rule is applied. We provide a first round of relative welfare comparisons between minority voting and simple majority …
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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 …
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