We compare sequential, binary voting schemes conducted by privately informed agents with interdependent preferences and three alternatives a compromise alternative in addition to two "extreme" alternatives on the left and on the right. The Anglo-Saxon amendment procedure always selects the...

Even while we are suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, cyclical events arrive mercilessly as scheduled. While some of them are held virtually (i.e., online), some cannot be completely virtualized, at least as of now, including national elections. A major risk in holding an election during a...

In Zimbabwe, many questions have been asked pertaining Zimbabwean elections. Some authors denote that Zimbabwean elections are free and not fair. Gatsheni (2012) denotes that elections in Zimbabwe have become little more than empty rituals with the system of electoral democracy being adopted to...

Voters have strong incentives to increase their influence by trading votes, a practice indeed believed to be common. But is vote trading welfare-improving or welfare-decreasing? We review the theoretical literature and, when available, its related experimental tests. We begin with the analysis...

Economists have come to understand that human choices are not only driven by self-interest but also “social preferences” – a person’s concern over resources allocated to other people. Moreover, such preferences may be affected by the environment in which such choices are made, especially...

This paper examines the single most common class of ballot ordering procedures used in general elections in the U.S., which give the most advantageous ballot position to the currently-prevailing political party. An unusual variant of these procedures in the state of Wyoming allows their effects...

This article reviews the development of my thesis that the Serrano decisions, which began in 1971 and sought to disconnect school spending from local property-tax bases, caused California voters to embrace Proposition 13, which radically undermined the property tax system in 1978. I submit that...

This paper studies the effect of voters’ support for government intervention on the choice of policies that reduce income inequality. Using a Downsian two-party political competition framework in which voters differ in both income and ideology, I find that an increase in income inequality does...

Despite the extensive literature on armed conflict, little is known about the medium- and long-term effects of electoral violence on children’s health. This paper shows that electoral violence of low scale yet recursive nature has a detrimental impact on the height of children and adolescents...