between decision rules inspired by ranking-based utilitarianism and the majority rule. …

Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the … alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval … voting, allowing the scores 0, 1; range voting, allowing all numbers in an interval as scores; evaluative voting, allowing …

Puppe [2007] of monotone Arrovian aggregation, our analysis yields a rich class of strategy-proof social choice functions on …

majority voting, the single-peaked domain is the only minimally rich and connected domain that contains two completely reversed …

"the will of the people." In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify … ranks, and whether attitudes toward aggregation differ across countries with divergent traditions. …

We study decision rules for committees that repeatedly take a binary decision. Committee members are privately informed … voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … structure of repeated decision-making allows for richer decision rules that overcome this inefficiency by making use of …