rotating agenda setting, a taxpayer-protection rule and repeated voting. The latter rule makes vote buying prohibitively costly. …

We introduce a two-stage, multiple-round voting procedure where the thresholds needed for approval require a qualified …

private information truthfully before voting takes place. Depending on the distance between two feasible public good levels …, the optimal mechanism involves either one or two voting rounds. We show that procedural efficiency cannot be achieved by … communication among all citizens prior to voting. Finally, we outline several applications of the mechanism …

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 …

-setting only by ensuring subsistence levels of consumption and applying simple majority voting as decision rule fails to enable a … suitable constitutional rules can, however, overcome poverty and induce economic well-being. Besides majority voting, these …