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The act of choosing can influence maximizing behaviour for at least two distinct reasons: (1) process significance and (2) decisional inescapability. These influences can require systematic departures from the regularities assumed in standard models of rational choice, but they can be fully...
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Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body which uses … weighted voting. Although the approach, based on co-operative game theory, has been known for a long time it has not been very …
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We develop a definition of equilibrium for agenda formation in general voting settings. The definition is independent … of any protocol. We show that the set of equilibrium outcomes for any Pareto efficient voting rule is uniquely determined …. We also show that for such voting rules, if preferences are strict then the set of equilibrium outcomes coincides with …
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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each district. We analyze the Markov perfect equilibrium under different voting q-rules where q is the number of yes votes … experiment with fiveperson committees that compares three alternative voting rules: unanimity (q=5); majority (q=3); and …
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members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees …
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Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...
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voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …
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The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote for a class or random electorate models encompassing the celebrated IC and IAC models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation across votes on the order of magnitude of this event. Our proof techniques...
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popular two social objective criteria used when evaluating voting mechanisms. For one particular probabilistic model …
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