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Euclidean preferences, option sets and strategyproofness

Bordes, Georges; Laffond, Gilbert; Le Breton, Michel - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 469-483

In this note, we use the technique of option sets to sort out the implications of coalitional strategyproofness in the spatial setting. We also discuss related issues and open problems.

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Science and Ideology in Economic, Political and Social Thought

Hillinger, Claude - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-2, pp. 1-70

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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Voting and Power in the Small Firm: Alternatives to the One-Share, One-Vote Rule

Goon, Robert; Teall, John L. - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 3 (1994) 2, pp. 127-139

The one-share, one-vote rule applicable to the governance of most business firms provides for proportional voting power …

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A resurrection of the Condorcet Jury Theorem

Szentes, Balazs; Koriyama, Yukio - In: Theoretical Economics 4 (2009) 2, pp. 227-252

This paper analyzes the optimal size of a deliberating committee where (i) there is no conflict of interest among individuals and (ii) information acquisition is costly. The committee members simultaneously decide whether to acquire information, and then make the ex-post efficient decision. The...

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Rationalizable voting

Kalandrakis, Tasos - In: Theoretical Economics 5 (2010) 1, pp. 93-125

When is a finite number of binary voting choices consistent with the hypothesis that the voter has preferences that … voting decisions. Without knowledge of the location of the voting alternatives, voting decisions by multiple voters impose no … joint testable restrictions on the location of their ideal points, even in one dimension. Furthermore, the voting records of …

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Endogenous agenda formation processes with the one-deviation property

Vartiainen, Hannu - In: Theoretical Economics 9 (2014) 1, pp. 187-216

Slavov (2009) in the context of repeated voting, and of the solution of Konishi and Ray (2003) and Vartiainen (2011) in the …

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Condorcet meets Ellsberg

Ellis, Andrew - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 3, pp. 865-895

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …

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Information in elections: Do third inflexible candidates always promote truthful behavior?

Andina-Díaz, Ascensión - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 3, pp. 307-339

We model an election between two Downsian mainstream candidates and a third inflexible politician. There is uncertainty about the state of the world. Candidates receive signals on the state and propose a policy to implement. There are two classes of voters: ideological, who are biased towards...

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One-dimensional mechanism design

Moulin, Hervé - In: Theoretical Economics 12 (2017) 2, pp. 587-619

We prove a general possibility result for collective decision problems where individual allocations are one-dimensional, preferences are single-peaked (strictly convex), and feasible allocation profiles cover a closed convex set. Special cases include the celebrated median voter theorem (Black...

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Partisan Campaigning and Initiative Petition Signing in Direct Democracies

Hofer, Katharina E. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 153 (2017) 3, pp. 261-291

panel of aggregate voting data at cantonal level. The results suggest that petition signing is positively and significantly …

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