In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …

We introduce a democratic procedure with voting-based proposals called "Pendular Voting". It works as follows: An … manipulability and exploitation of this voting procedure and its welfare effects. We show that manipulation is limited or absent and … that exploitation can be avoided. Regardless of whether the agenda-setter is altruistic or selfish, Pendular Voting leads …