We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly …

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 …

voting model, this paper relies instead on a probabilistic voting model, extending the use of this popular model to a new …

benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

Optimal voting rules have to be tailored to the underlying distribution of preferences. This paper shows that the … introduction of a stage at which agents may themselves choose voting rules according to which they decide in a second stage may … privately informed individuals choose voting rules and vote given these rules. In a setting with an asymmetric distribution of …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …

members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees …