Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

). Unlike previous studies that were based on case studies or interviews with stakeholders, we analyse the voting power of MEPs …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

We investigate the method of power indices to study voting power of members of a legislature that has voting blocs. Our … voting blocs. We apply the Penrose index (the absolute Banzhaf index) to a hypothetical voting body with 100 members. We show … voting power varies as bloc size varies. We briefly consider incentives to migrate between blocs. This technique of analysis …

We compare Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and Plurality Voting (PV) in elections with 3 candidates. Voters receive … their preferences sincerely. We provide conditions under which RCV will ensure both the existence of a sincere voting …

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 …

We study the possibilities for agenda manipulation under strategic voting for two prominent sequential voting … surprisingly, simple majority voting is not necessarily the optimal choice of a society that is concerned about agenda manipulation. …

How should a society choose between two social alternatives if participation in the decision process is voluntary and … utilitarian-optimal to use a linear voting rule: votes get alternativedependent weights, and a default obtains if the weighted sum … characterize equilibria in the case of small participation costs and show that leaving participation voluntary increases welfare …

committee to make decisions through voting is that a commitment device can be created out of it, without totally renouncing … flexibility to respond to unexpected contingencies. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a … can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee …