during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of … information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in large committees. We use this …

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 …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …

Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain …