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

insight common to the standard characterisations of voting power: the idea that one has power over an outcome to the extent …

), accepted in 1892 at the University of Copenhagen, Heckscher dealt with numerous issues related to voting, especially those …-cycles, differences between Condorcet-effective rules and the Borda rule, strategic voting, the influence of the voting order under the … parliamentary voting rules, the likelihood of single-peaked preference profiles, and the problems created by non …

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 …

preferences (i.e. a 'voting rule')? And if so, which voting rule best describes their behavior? We show that a prominent neural … network can be trained to respect two fundamental principles of voting theory, the unanimity principle and the Pareto property … chooses, and find that among a number of popular voting rules its behavior mimics most closely the Borda rule. Indeed, the …

Voting rules can be assessed from quite different perspectives: the axiomatic, the pragmatic, in terms of computational … learning perspective and ask how 'well' a few prominent voting rules can be learned by a neural network. To address this … training sample size for a neural network varies significantly with the voting rule, and we rank a number of popular voting …