utilitarian-optimal to use a linear voting rule: votes get alternativedependent weights, and a default obtains if the weighted sum …

We use the citizen-candidate model to study the differential incentives that alternative voting rules provide for … voting rules by highlighting the importance of endogenous candidacy …

In using approval voting to elect multiple winners to a committee or council, it is desirable that excess votes … for preferential voting systems, and by Phragmén for approval voting. Because voters can vote for multiple candidates or … in voting bodies …

, focusing on Duverger's prediction that plurality rule leads to higher levels of strategic voting. They produce a causal … estimate of the difference in incidence of strategic voting across systems, finding more strategic voting under the plurality …