Search Results - subject:"Vote Aggregation"

Do voters vote in line with their policy preferences? : the role of information

Nordin, Mattias - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 681-721

In this article, I investigate how political information affects voting behavior. Specifically, I test (i) if more informed voters are more likely to vote for their closest politicians; and (ii) if this translates into a bias on the aggregate level. To do so, I use a set of Swedish individual...

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Borda and the Maximum Likelihood Approach to Vote Aggregation

Truchon, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

Drissi-Bakhkhat and Truchon ["Maximum Likelihood Approach to Vote Aggregation with Variable Probabilities," Social … Choice and Welfare, 23, (2004), 161-185.] extend the Condorcet-Kemeny-Young maximum likelihood approach to vote aggregation …

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Statistical Comparison of Aggregation Rules for Votes

Truchon, Michel; Gordon, Stephen - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

If individual voters observe the true ranking on a set of alternatives with error, then the social choice problem, that is, the problem of aggregating their observations, is one of statistical inference. This study develops a statistical methodology that can be used to evaluate the properties of...

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Social Choice, Optimal Inference and Figure Skating

Gordon, Stephen; Truchon, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

We approach the social choice problem as one of optimal statistical inference. If individual voters or judges observe the true order ona set of alternatives with error, then it is possible to use the set of individual rankings to make probability statements about the correct social order. Given...

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Aggregation of Rankings: a Brief Review of Distance-Based Rules

Truchon, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

Some researchers have addressed the problem of aggregating individual preferences or rankings by seeking a ranking that is closest to the individual rankings. Their methods differ according to the notion of distance that they use. The best known method of this sort is due to Kemeny. The first...

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Aggregation of Rankings in Figure Skating

Truchon, Michel - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2004

previous one but less so than the Kemeny rule. Key words: figure skating, ranking rules, vote aggregation, cycles, maximum …

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Aggregation of Rankings in Figure Skating

Truchon, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004

We scrutinize and compare, from the perspective of modern theory of social choice, two rules that have been used to rank competitors in Figure Skating for the past decades. The firs rule has been in use at least from 1982 until 1998, when it was replaced by a new one. We also compare these two...

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Maximum Likelihood Approach to Vote Aggregation with Variable Probabilities

Drissi, Mohamed; Truchon, Michel - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2002

Condorcet (1785) initiated the statistical approach to vote aggregation. Two centuries later, Young (1988) showed that …Maximum Likelihood Approach to Vote Aggregation with Variable Probabilities ∗ Mohamed Drissi Michel Truchon † CIRPÉE …, Canada, G1K 7P4; mtru@ecn.ulaval.ca Abstract Condorcet (1785) initiated the statistical approach to vote aggregation. Two …

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Do voters vote in line with their policy preferences? The role of information

Nordin, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

This paper investigates how information aects voting behavior. Speci cally, I test (i) if more informed voters are better at voting for their most preferred politicians and (ii) if this translates into a bias on the aggregate level. To do so, I use a set of Swedish individual survey data on the...

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Fiskalische Effekte der Kommunalverfassungsreformen der 1990er Jahre in Deutschland / Reforming Local Constitutions in Germany during the 1990s – Their Fiscal Effects

Blume, Lorenz; Döring, Thomas; Voigt, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 4, pp. 317-344

vote-aggregation as well as vote-splitting. Simultaneously, the five-percent threshold was abolished lowering entry …

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