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 …

received by each household declines with income. Majority voting determines the two dimensions of public policy: the size of … the welfare program and the means-testing rate. We establish the existence of a sequential majority voting equilibrium and …