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voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing JEL classification: D1 ; D72 …
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affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decisionmaking. We present a model in which career … concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study …
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ownership is relatively dispersed. Typically the largest shareholder in any large listed company is likely to own a voting …) All but the very largest shareholdings are too small to have any real voting power. The question of voting power is the …
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voting games. For K > 3 alternatives and n > 3 voters, we find sufficient conditions for the game to be dominance … large, "almost all" games can be classified as either DS or not DS. If the game is DS, a Condorcet Winner always exists when … n > 4, and the outcome is always the Condorcet Winner when the electorate is sufficiently replicated. …
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In a model of majority voting with common values and costly but voluntary participation, we show that in the vicinity … negative voting externality identified by Borgers(2001) in the context of private values is always dominated by a positive … informational externality. In addition, we show that multiple Pareto-ranked voting equilibria may exist and moreover, majority …
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Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which …
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political-economy equilibrium. We describe a two period repeated voting model where second-period outcomes depend on commitment …
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This paper assesses the indices against a set of reasonable criteria in terms of shareholder voting power and the … control of the corporation in a large cross section of British companies. Each company is a separate voting body and there is … much variation in the distribution of voting shares among them. Moreover reasonable criteria exist against which to judge …
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This paper examines the system of Qualified Majority Voting, used by the Council of Ministers of the European Union … Coleman to make two analyses: (1) the question of the voting power of member countries from the point of view of fairness, and …
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We develop a definition of equilibrium for agenda formation in general voting settings. The definition is independent … of any protocol. We show that the set of equilibrium outcomes for any Pareto efficient voting rule is uniquely determined …. We also show that for such voting rules, if preferences are strict then the set of equilibrium outcomes coincides with …
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