I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …

prefer. To answer this question, I design a laboratory experiment in which participants choose voting systems. I find that …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 …

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

qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

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 …