Search Results - subject:"Voting systems"

When Women Take All: Direct Election and Female Leadership

Cipullo, Davide - 2023

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into political offices compared to indirect appointment (à la parliamentary). Exploiting the staggered phase-in across Italian municipalities of a reform to the local institutional...

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When women take all : direct election and female leadership

Cipullo, Davide - 2023

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Selecting a voting method : the case for the Borda count

Saari, Donald - In: Constitutional political economy 34 (2023) 3, pp. 357-366

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Stable voting

Holliday, Wesley H.; Pacuit, Eric - In: Constitutional political economy 34 (2023) 3, pp. 421-433

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Improved lower bound on the dimension of the EU council’s voting rules

Kober, Stefan; Weltge, Stefan - In: Optimization Letters 15 (2020) 4, pp. 1293-1302

Kurz and Napel (Optim Lett 10(6):1245–1256, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-015-0917-0) proved that the voting system of the EU council (based on the 2014 population data) cannot be represented as the intersection of six weighted games, i.e., its dimension is at least 7. This set a new...

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Triple-acyclicity in majorities based on difference in support

Llamazares, Bonifacio; Pérez-Asurmendi, Patrizia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper we study to what extent majorities based on difference in support leads to triple-acyclic collective decisions. These majorities, which take into account voters' intensities of preference between pairs of alternatives through reciprocal preference relations, require to the winner...

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Review of Howard DeLong (1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s theorem", with a reaction, also on its relevance in 2008 for the European Union

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There will be many researchers who discover voting theory afresh and who will want to understand it and its interesting paradoxes. Arrow's theorem (1951, 1963) is the most celebrated result in social choice theory. It has been criticized a lot but Howard DeLong (1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s...

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Why one would accept Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Various scientists under the label of “Scientists for a democratic Europe” (SDE) sent a joint “Letter to the governments of the EU member states” (2007) advising the use of the Penrose Square Root Weights (PSRW) for the EU Council of Ministers. When we compare the SDE letter with...

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In a democracy, Bayrou would have won. Application of the Borda Fixed Point method to the 2007 French presidential elections

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Democratic nations are advised to have parliaments select the chief executive by the Borda Fixed Point method. The current practice of having direct popular elections using systems that have originated in history is inoptimal and actually quite undemocratic since winners are selected who don’t...

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Arrovian juntas

Eisermann, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article explicitly constructs and classifies all arrovian voting systems on three or more alternatives. If we … classification of all such voting systems as dictatorial hierarchies. If we leave the traditional realm of complete orderings, the … hierarchy or coalition structure can be surprisingly rich. We give an explicit description of all such voting systems …

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