candidates and voting is voluntary. We also compare advertisements that are costless to voters with those that reduce voter … voting is voluntary than when it is compulsory. …

candidates and when voters may express indifference, every voting rule satisfying Condorcet's principle must generate both of …

and without abstention. Finally, strategic voting (voting for the least preferred alternative) is common for a fraction of …This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over the …

indifference components of abstention. …

This article analyses the voting and abstention patterns in French departments in the 1992 referendum on the Maastricht … view that the voting behaviour of individual agents depended on their self-interest. The impact of economic characteristics … on the abstention rate is less clear. Indeed, the variable that is most significantly correlated with abstention in the …

to the election process. Among other voting procedures, the scoring run-off methods, which eliminate progressively the …

This paper analyses the voting and abstention patterns in French departments in the 1992 referendum on the Maastricht … view that the voting behavior of individual agents depended on their self-interest. The impact of economic characteristics … on the abstention rate is less clear. Indeed, the variable that is most significantly correlated with abstention in the …