weights as an imaginary voter submitting preferences over alternatives in the form of an ordered list. With this voting …

made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real …

We consider the design of an optimal voting system when voting is costly. For a private values model with two … alternatives we show the optimality of a voting system that combines three elements: (i) there is an arbitrarily chosen default … decision and non-participation is interpreted as a vote in favor of the default; (ii) voting is sequential; (iii) not all …

We distinguish between (i) voting systems in which voters can rank candidates and (ii) those in which they can grade … candidates, such as approval voting, in which voters can give two grades—approve (1) or not approve (0)—to candidates. While two …

executive (President) are riddled with voting paradoxes. Superior to a single vote are some methods with preference orderings …

candidates and when voters may express indifference, every voting rule satisfying Condorcet's principle must generate both of …

using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …