the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication …

rationale for the widespread use of unanimous voting. …

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …

in both total population and citizen voting age population (or, indeed, any pair of populations that is desired.) Thus … the Supreme Court need not choose between equalizing representation and equalizing voting power as it is asked to do in … Evenwel v Abbott. By example I show that requiring equality of both total population and citizen voting age population may …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity … this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when … subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist …