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at a particular aspect, the power distribution in the Council of the European Union. Using the Shapley-Shubik power index …, we calculate the member states' powers with and without the United Kingdom and update earlier power forecasts using the … Eurostat's latest population projections. There is a remarkably sharp relation between population size and the change in power …
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Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as …
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Electoral thresholds in the context of parliamentary elections are an instrument for preventing the fragmentation of parliaments and facilitate the formation of a coalition government. However, the clauses also introduce distortions and modify the equality of electoral votes in an election. In...
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voting experiments. To evaluate the effect of complexity we adopt a level-k reasoning model concept. This model by Nagel [1 …, increasing payoff amounts does promote more strategic behavior in a significant manner. Our results show with complex voting …
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knowledge of the preference profile of the electorate, and preference cycles are limited. Both papers devise voting systems …
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Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements. We explore such rules in terms of their...
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This paper studies how the cost of delay and voting order affect agents' decisions in a unanimity voting mechanism …
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How does salient public information affect voters' behavior? In a majoritarian voting game with common preferences … to the voting decision. These findings are important because the salience of public information is easily manipulable by …
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We study the efficient computation of power indices for weighted voting games with precoalitions amongst subsets of …-of-the-art algorithms for computing the Banzhaf and Shapley-Shubik indices for weighted voting games, we present a framework for fast … algorithms for the three most common power indices with precoalitions, i.e., the Owen index, the Banzhaf-Owen index and the …
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We study strategic voting in a setting where voters choose from three options and Condorcet cycles may occur. We … strategic voting in our experiment compared to the homogenous preference case that we study in a companion paper. Both … aggregate distribution of preferences seems to be the element that best explains observed differences in voting behavior …
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