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 …

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure …. Using this new measure of the opportunity cost of voting to predict turnout at the individual level, we find that small …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed …

West German population, but unlike most international migrants they had full voting rights and were eligible for social …

cooperates, the alternative becomes depopulated. We analyze the success of this "voting with feet" mechanism and find that …