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Voting for voters: A model of electoral evolution
Barberà, Salvador; Maschler, Michael B.; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998
periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as …
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The Paradox of Grading Systems
Brams, Steven; Potthoff, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We distinguish between (i) voting systems in which voters can rank candidates and (ii) those in which they can grade candidates, such as approval voting, in which voters can give two grades—approve (1) or not approve (0)—to candidates. While two grades rule out a discrepancy between the...
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The Probability of Casting a Decisive Vote: From IC to IAC trhough Ehrhart's Polynomials and Strong Mixing
Le Breton, Michel; Lepelley, Dominique; Smaoui, Hatem - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote for a class or random electorate models encompassing the celebrated IC and IAC models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation across votes on the order of magnitude of this event. Our proof techniques...
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Manipulation in elections with uncertain preferences
McLennan, Andrew - In: Journal of Mathematical Economics 47 (2011) 3, pp. 370-375
A decision scheme (Gibbard, 1977) maps profiles of strict preferences over a set of social alternatives to lotteries over the social alternatives. A decision scheme is weakly strategy-proof if it is never possible for a voter to increase expected utility (for some vNM utility function consistent...
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Science and ideology in economic, political and social thought
Hillinger, Claude - 2007
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
Barbera, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who then participate in later votes at the union level on their behalf. The countries, provinces, and states may vary in their populations and composition. If we wish to maximize the...
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Inherited institutions: Cooperation in the light of democratic legitimacy
Langenbach, Pascal; Tausch, Franziska - 2017
We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a social dilemma. Subjects inherit the institutional setting from a previous generation of subjects who either decided on the implementation of the institution democratically by...
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Committees and special interests
Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003
Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...
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Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation
Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2020
Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections … during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences … observed in real life elections (no disclosure, turnout disclosure and vote count disclosure), I find that vote count …
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The swing voter's curse revisited: Transparency's impact on committee voting
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Deb, Moumita; Lohse, Johannes; … - 2024
Majority voting is considered an efficient information aggregation mechanism in committee decision-making. We examine if this holds in environments where voters first need to acquire information from sources of varied quality and cost. In such environments, efficiency may depend on free-riding...
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