Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

This paper develops the symmetric power order, a measure of voting power for multicandidate elections. The measure … generalizes standard pivotality-based voting power measures for binary elections, such as Banzhaf power. At the same time, the … symmetric power order to show that pivotality only measures voting power in monotonic elections, and is not a good measure in …

political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …

The paper investigates general properties of power indices, measuring the voting power in committees. Concepts of local …

What are the best voting systems in terms of utilitarianism? Or in terms of maximin, or maximax? We study these … questions for the case of three alternatives and a class of structurally equivalent voting rules. We show that plurality …, arguably the most widely used voting system, performs very poorly in terms of remarkable ideals of justice, such as …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …