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Minority voting and public project provision

Gersbach, Hans - 2009

The author proposes a two-round process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first round, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first round is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the...

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Minority Voting and Public Project Provision

Gersbach, Hans - 2011

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Minority Voting and Public Project Provision

Gersbach, Hans - 2011

We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first period is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132433

Do Supermajority Rules Really Deter Extremism? The Role of Electoral Competition

Kishishita, Daiki - 2020

This study investigates how supermajority rules in a legislature affect electoral competition. To this end, we … construct a probabilistic voting model and show that supermajority rules magnify the divergence of policy platforms generated by … aggregate uncertainty about the electoral outcome. Thus, supermajority rules involve an important trade-off: they induce the …

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Strategic delegation and voting rules

Harstad, Bård (contributor) - 2007

When making collektive desicions, principals (voters or districts) typically benefit by strategically delegating their bargaining and voting power to representatives different from themselves. There are conflicting views in the literature, however, of whether such a delegate should be...

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Majority-Rule Bargaining and the Under Provision of Public Investment Goods

Leblanc, William; Snyder, James M.; Tripathi, Micky - 2001

Despite evidence that modern democracies systematically shortchange public investment goods, relatively little theoretical work exists to explain this phenomenon. We build on Baron and Ferejohn's (American Political Science Review, 83(4) (1989) 1181--1206) bargaining model to describe public...

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Endogenous Candidacy in Plurality Rule Elections : Some Explanations of the Number of Candidates and their Polarization

Bol, Damien; Dellis, Arnaud; Oak, Mandar - 2016

This paper surveys the literature that uses endogenous candidacy models of electoral competition to explain the number of candidates and the extent of their polarization in elections held under the plurality rule. The plurality rule is the voting rule under which each voter votes for one...

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Committees and Supermajority Voting : Balancing Commitment and Flexibility

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2003

flexibility to respond to unexpected contingencies. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a … monetary policy but these insights are more general (extending to capital taxation and patent protection). Supermajority rules …'s constitution) are endogenously chosen by simple majority voting, the emerging majority rule is the supermajority yielding the mix …

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Assessing the extent of democratic failures : A t%-Condorcet Jury Theorem

Triossi, Matteo - 2016

The paper quantifies the amount of information aggregated by large elections under qualified majority rules. It shows show that, even when the Condorcet Jury Theorem does not hold, there still can be meaningful information aggregation. In particular, we study the case of information aggregation...

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Comparison of Voting Procedures Using Models of Electoral Competition with Endogenous Candidacy

Bol, Damien; Dellis, Arnaud; Oak, Mandar - 2016

We survey the literature that compares the theoretical properties of different voting procedures using models of electoral competition with endogenous candidacy. In particular, we focus on the predictions made by these models regarding the number of candidates running for election and their...

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