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 …

voting rules. We provide arguments in support of this view and emphasize the conceptual and analytical differences between … this notion and that of decisiveness. The conclusions are illustrated in the case study provided by three different voting …

expansion, less is known about the underlying voting patterns that have driven this expansion. This article examines county …-level voting patterns from the 2002 Tennessee lottery referendum and county-level lottery expenditures to determine whether voting … percentage voting for lottery approval and lottery expenditure is not correlated with income and negatively correlated with …

by applying it to Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee voting data. …

In the unique attainable equilibrium of a voting model with one minority candidate and two similarly appealing majority …

voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule … majority voting rules, and we measure the voting power of a player by his average payoff in the experiment. By comparing voting … power across voting bodies of varying size, we find empirical support for the paradox of new members. Our results also allow …