examine the determinants of national spending on local public goods in a three-stage game of campaign rhetoric, voting, and …

information. Instead, equilibrium strategies are many-to-one mappings that transform continuous data into ordered ranks: voting … procedures are the equilibrium methods of achieving a consensus in committees. Voting necessarily coarsens the transmission of … information among members, but is necessary to control conflicts of interest. The degree of coarseness of the equilibrium voting …

of government spending to the political system. A Downsian model of electoral competition and forward-looking voting … government. A model of legislative bargaining and backward-looking voting indicates that presidential -- as opposed to …

, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV … CV encourages the minority to overcome obstacles to voting: although each voter is treated equally, CV increases minority …'s turnout relative to the majority, and the minority's share of seats won. A lab experiment based on a costly voting design …

For voters with quot;socialquot; preferences, the expected utility of voting is approximately independent of the size … show that rational socially-motivated voting has a feedback mechanism that stabilizes turnout at reasonable levels (e …

We study the properties of the group-based model of voting in elections with more than two candidates. We consider two … equilibria under both rules and identify the features of an election that favor different types of voting behavior: either … sincere voting or coordination behind a limited number of candidates. Comparing plurality and majority runoff, we find that …

The paper studies a voting scheme where members of a committee voting sequentially on a known series of binary … simple majority voting. But if one of the voters controls the order of the agenda, does the scheme become less efficient? The …