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that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …
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We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard (hidden actions), in which neither voters nor politicians can commit to future choices. We prove existence of electoral equilibria, and we show that office holders mix between...
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change in the existing election system. But a mathematical solution to the problem does not require such changes and is much …
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) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion …
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