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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
Barbera, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230814
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Social Choice and Resource Allocation: A Topological Perspective.
Heal, G.M. - Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005478453
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The Geometry of Implementation: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Straightforward Games.
Heal, G.M.; Chichilnisky, G. - Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005663858
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What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model
Berdugo, Binyamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such conditions, we find that social outcomes will depend not only on policy preferences but also on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789794
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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559686
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The swing voter's curse revisited: Transparency's impact on committee voting
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Deb, Moumita; Lohse, Johannes; … - 2024
Majority voting is considered an efficient information aggregation mechanism in committee decision-making. We examine … acquisition, voting, and overall efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517461
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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531712
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics
Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543745
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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273190