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The majority runoff system is widely used around the world. Yet, our understanding of its properties and of voters’ behavior is limited. In this paper, we fully characterize the set of strictly perfect voting equilibria in large three-candidate majority runoff elections. Considering all...
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It is commonly thought that in an election with two parties there can be no strategic voting - voters simply vote for … a single-district election. For large elections I show that the implemented policy bundle: (a) is uniquely pinned down … exists. These properties are not guaranteed in a single-district election. Furthermore, I show that: (i) parliamentary …
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We axiomatically study voting rules without making any assumption on the ballots that voters are allowed to cast. In this setting, we characterize the family of ''endorsement rules", which includes approval voting and the plurality rule, via the imposition of three normative conditions. The...
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We consider a model where policy motivated citizens vote in two simultaneous elections, one for the President who is elected by majority rule, in a single national district, and one for the Congressmen, each of whom is elected by majority rule in a local district. The policy to be implemented...
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How often will elections end in landslides and what is the probability for a head-to-head race? Analyzing ballot results from several large countries rather anomalous and yet unexplained distributions have been observed. We identify tactical voting as the driving ingredient for the anomalies and...
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