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 …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …

Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain …

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 …

represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but …There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

states of the world. We characterize the optimal anonymous and deterministic voting rule and provide a homogeneity assumption … on preferences and beliefs under which sincere voting is a Nash equilibrium for this rule. We also provide a necessary … and sufficient condition for sincere voting to be an equilibrium under any deterministic majoritarian voting rule. We show …

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