The author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first … round is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and … the simple majority rule is applied. The author provides a first pass of relative welfare comparisons between minority …

We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a … rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and voting rights … majority rule is applied. We provide a first round of relative welfare comparisons between minority voting and simple majority …

the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … minority, towards majority voting or towards status-quo preserving rules, they only imperfectly reflect the distributions of …