In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may … from 1977 to 1995. The hypothesis that voting is only instrumental is clearly rejected by the data. …

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 …

this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …

states of the world. We characterize the optimal anonymous and deterministic voting rule and provide a homogeneity assumption … on preferences and beliefs under which sincere voting is a Nash equilibrium for this rule. We also provide a necessary … and sufficient condition for sincere voting to be an equilibrium under any deterministic majoritarian voting rule. We show …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of 'national' coordination … of voting and in the case of 'partisan' coordination of voting? By coordination of voting we mean two step process: in …

Voting power in voting situations is measured by the probability of changing decisions by altering the cast 'yes' or … change decisions. This theory is often applied to weighted voting situations, where voters can cast multiple votes. Measuring … reected by a voting game that is not any more simple. We use data from Scotland, Hungary and a number of other countries both …