This paper attemps to understand a dilemma embedded in the Declaration of Independence: the expected costs of war against Britain far exceeded any possible war benefits, if these are construed simply as the removal of colonial taxation.

This essay shows that, for any non-collegial voting rule, σ, there exists an integer, s(σ), with this property: if the policy space, W, has dimension no greater than s(σ), then there exists a profile of smooth utilities on W, such that the core for σ at this profile is non-empty and...

This paper attempts to model elections by incorporating voter judgments about candidate and leader competence. The proposed model can be linked to Madison’s understanding of the nature of the choice of Chief Magistrate (Madison, James Madison: writings. The Library of America, New York, <CitationRef CitationID="CR43">1999</CitationRef>...</citationref>