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How the Republic of Venice chose its Doge : lot-based elections and supermajority rule
Molinari, M. Cristina - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868971
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286323
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Correlation, partitioning and the probability of casting a decisive vote under the majority rule
Le Breton, Michel; Lepelley, Dominique; Smaoui, Hatem - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179315
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Choosing voting systems behind the veil of Ignorance : a two-tier voting experiment
Weber, Matthias - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337025
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Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation
Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013
In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197548
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945990
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Tackling the Bundestag growth by introducing fraction-valued votes
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2019
Currently, only China has a parliament larger than the German Bundestag, which continues to grow due to the increasing number of overhang mandates. In 2016, Norbert Lammert, then president of the Bundestag, proposed to restrict it to 630 members by allocating mandates according to quotas for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115375
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Majority vote on educational standards
Schwager, Robert - 2018
The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788763
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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation
Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018
Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically, the causal effects of local representation are...
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