We extend approval voting so as to elect multiple candidates, who may be either individuals or members of a political … duplicate those of cumulative voting in 2-party elections, is even-handed or balanced …

majority voting can decide more efficiently than single-person decision-making, in terms of having a higher probability of … choosing the better alternative. Wit (1998) showed that the nonasymptotic Condorcet jury theorem holds under strategic voting …

We axiomatically study voting rules without making any assumption on the ballots that voters are allowed to cast. In … this setting, we characterize the family of ''endorsement rules", which includes approval voting and the plurality rule … radically change the social outcome. Building on this result, we provide the first axiomatic characterization of approval voting …

We explore the possibility of axiomatic characterization of approval voting when the set of voters is fixed and each … social choice rule is approval voting if and only if it satisfies strategy-proofness together with four standard axioms. We …-proofness. The latter result answers an open problem left in M. Vorsatz (Approval voting on dichotomous preferences, Social Choice …