There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union …

likely not to result in interdependent voting behaviour.Therefore, and in contrast to earlier literature, we find that …

meetings of the committee. Does voting status change behavior? We find that the data go against the hypothesis that without the … voting right, presidents use their public speeches and their meeting interventions to compensate for the loss of formal … influence; rather, they support the hypothesis that the voting right makes presidents more involved. We also find that speeches …