A theory is developed to identify, characterize, and explain all possible positional and pairwise voting outcomes that … can occur for any number of alternatives and any profile. This paper describes pairwise voting where new results include …" and "losers." The theory also shows how to construct all supporting profiles. The following companion paper does the same …

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 …

We study the possibilities for agenda manipulation under strategic voting for two prominent sequential voting … surprisingly, simple majority voting is not necessarily the optimal choice of a society that is concerned about agenda manipulation …

to the election process. Among other voting procedures, the scoring run-off methods, which eliminate progressively the … for a fixed number of voters. Keywords and Phrases: Abstention, Paradox, Voting, Manipulation …

A group of N individuals must choose between two collective alternatives. Under Quadratic Voting (QV), agents buy votes …

Quadratic Voting (QV) and Ramsian Voting (RV) are two methods of “Bayesian Voting” or “Bayesian preference … between voter preferences and subjective probability, present the least objectionable form of Quadratic Voting, and present a … simpler alternative to QV that we call “Ramsian Voting.” …

We provide an axiomatic characterization of Approval Voting without the approval balloting assumption. The dichotomous … structure of the informational basis of Approval voting as well as its aggregative rationale are jointly derived from a set of … normative conditions on the voting procedure. The first one is the well-known social-theoretic principle of consistency; the …