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When is voting optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2014
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457829
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When is Voting Optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2014
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039595
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Voting for Compromises : Alternative Voting Methods in Polarized Societies
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Buckenmaier, Johannes - 2021
Democratic societies have been increasingly confronted with extreme, knife-edge election outcomes that affect everybody’s lives and contribute to social instability. Even if political compromises based on social conventions as equity or economic arguments as efficiency are available, polarized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213858
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When is Voting Optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2015
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an inefficient way to make collective choices and this paper sheds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030489
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The case for utilitarian voting
Hillinger, Claude - 2005
and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440432
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On the possibility of democracy and rational collective choice
Hillinger, Claude - 2004
The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440457
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Utilitarian collective choice and voting
Hillinger, Claude - 2004
In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting … theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow's theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow's theory …, there evolved a consistent cardinal theory of collective choice. This theory, most prominently associated with the work of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440461
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Voting for compromises: alternative voting methods in polarized societies
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Buckenmaier, Johannes - 2021 - This version: July 2021
Democratic societies have been increasingly confronted with extreme, knife-edge election outcomes that affect everybody's lives and contribute to social instability. Even if political compromises based on social conventions as equity or economic arguments as efficiency are available, polarized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625507
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Pendular Voting
Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2021
We introduce a democratic procedure with voting-based proposals called ”Pendular Voting”. It works as follows: An agenda-setter chooses a proposal meant to replace a given status quo. In the first stage, a random sample of the population votes on the proposal. The result is made public,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223041
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A Map of Approval Voting Equilibra Outcomes
Courtin, Sebastien - 2015
We fully characterize in a mass election model the set of candidates that can win with positive probability in equilibrium when the voters are allowed to vote for as many candidates as they want. If at most two candidates can win for some undominated strategy profile (“in the race”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035400