positions. The data set includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …

results of this kind. In Part 2 (Voting Schemes and Mechanisms), the operation and performance of voting schemes and cost … can be traced back to a seminal proposal by Borda), the game-theoretic aspects of voting in committees, and the …