comprising exactly k alternatives (including itself). This study uses a spatial voting setting to characterize this theoretical …

I introduce a model of shareholder voting. I describe and provide characterizations of three families of shareholder … voting rules: ratio rules, difference rules, and share majority rules. The characterizations rely on two key axioms: merger … consistency, which requires consistency in voting outcomes following stock-for-stock mergers, and reallocation invariance, which …

The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity … this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when … subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist …

Electoral thresholds in the context of parliamentary elections are an instrument for preventing the fragmentation of … equality of electoral votes in an election. In order to decide to what extent these negative effects can be accepted, it is … these difficulties. For this issue, we introduce a concept based on cooperative game theory which takes into account the …

The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have common interests, elections will … aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with …

students, especially their voting in national and local elections. The study examines the impact of gender, age, family income … Jordanian university students in national and local elections. The more the gender varies, the more the voting shifts in favor … different voting in the national and local elections. …

Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as …

Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on … characterize the social choice rules implemented by sophisticated voting on agendas with these two features. I also characterize … related to the prevailing rules for order-of-voting used by legislatures. These results establish a clear connection between …

We study a model of voting with two alternatives in a symmetric environment. We characterize the interim allocation … probabilities that can be implemented by a symmetric voting rule. We show that every such interim allocation probability can be … implemented as a convex combination of two families of deterministic voting rules: qualified majority and qualified anti …