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Justesen, Mogens K. - In: European Union Politics 8 (2007) 4, pp. 537-553

The article applies Social Choice theory to analyse new and so far undiscovered aspects of the Danish referendums on the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and 1993. The article queries whether the amended Maastricht Treaty adopted in 1993 was, in fact, the most preferred alternative for a majority of...

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Strategy-proof social choice

Barberà, Salvador - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

This paper surveys the literature on strategy-proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models. This article has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare,...

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Would the Borda Count Have Avoided the Civil War?

Tabarrok, Alexander; Spector, Lee - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (1999) 2, pp. 261-288

plausibly represent the will of the voters or would a different voting system have represented their preferences more accurately …, we are able to show, in a single figure, the outcome of every positional voting system, as well as all possible approval … voting outcomes. By comparing the outcome under plurality rule to the outcomes which would have occurred under other voting …

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Strategy-proof social choice

Barberà, Salvador - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2010

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Judge:Don't Vote!

Balinski, Michel; Laraki, Rida - HAL - 2010

This article explains why the traditional model of the theory of social choice misrepresents reality, it cannot lead to acceptable methods of ranking and electing in any case, and a more realistic model leads inevitably to one method of ranking and electing—majority judgment—that best meets...

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Mobility and Redistributive Politics.

Hindriks, J. - Business School, University of Exeter - 1999

mobile (although in different degrees) and when each jurisdiction chooses its redistributive policy by majority voting. This …

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Multidimensional welfare rankings

Athanassoglou, Stergios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

weights as an imaginary voter submitting preferences over alternatives in the form of an ordered list. With this voting …

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GOVERNMENT DOMESTIC DEBT AND THE RISK OF DEFAULT: A POLITICAL-ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF DEBT.

AGHION, P.; BOLTON, P. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 1990

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GENERAL INTERSET AND REDISTRIBUTION WITH SELF-INTERESTED VOTERS: SOCIAL CONTRACT REVISITED.

LEVY-GARBOUA, L. - Théorie et Applications en Microéconomie et … - 1989

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The Institutional Effect on Majority Rule Instability: Bicameralism in Spatial Policy Decisions.

Bottom, W.P.; Eavey, C.L.; Miller, G.J.; Nicoll, J. - Business Law and Economics Center, Olin School of Business - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to report on experiments that test for an independent effect of bicameralism on legislative stability. The experiments are designed to test the theory of the bicameral core (Hammond and Miller 1986), which demonstrates that a bicameral legislature is more apt to have...

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