We introduce 'Balanced Voting', a new voting scheme that is particularly suitable for making fundamental societal …, and others that care much less. In a two-stage procedure, Balanced Voting works as follows: Citizens may abstain from … voting on a fundamental direction in a first stage. In a second voting stage, this guarantees them a voting right on the …

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 …

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 …