Existing theories on the link between electoral systems and personal vote incentives inform us that individualistic behaviour should increase as it becomes electorally more beneficial for a legislator to cater to her personal reputation instead of the party label. Through a novel micro-level...

Democratic institutions aggregate preferences poorly. The norm of one-person-one-vote with majority rule treats people fairly by giving everyone an equal chance to influence outcomes, but fails to give proportional weight to people whose interests in a social outcome are stronger than those of...

Countries that elect their policy-makers by means of Plurality Voting tend to have a two-party system. This observation can be explained by the strategic behavior of voters. The present paper derives two broad classes of voting procedures under which strategic voting behavior induces a two-party...