Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848-2009), we investigate whether …

heterogeneous expectations in one-to-one matching models and voting models, and show that the relaxation of the hypothesis of common …

This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and … the voting bloc, both if the agent is a member of the bloc and if the agent is not part of the bloc. We also determine … whether individual agents prefer to participate in or step out of the bloc, and we find the different optimal internal voting …

-statics and, more generally, for the importance of the network structure for voting behavior. …