This paper illustrates on two examples the use of some multivariate statistical analysis methods for describing profiles of preferences. The first example is the Social Choise and Welfare council election of 1999 and the second is a school-case fictious one. The school case example shows how...

This paper considers electoral competition between two office-motivated parties and one voter, in the presence of two alternative policies and under imperfect information. The theory of refinements of Nash equilibrium predicts the outcome of this three-player game: both parties faithfully use...

We answer here to François Allisson?s and Nicolas Brisset?s comment on our article « Approval Voting, Evaluation Voting : An Experiment during the 2012 French Presidential Election » published in 2013 in the Revue économique (n?64). We develop five arguments which enable to qualify their...

The article considers Approval Voting for a large population of voters. It is supposed that voters evaluate the relative likelihood of pairwise ties among candidates based on statistical information about candidate scores. This leads them to vote sincerely and according to a simple behavioral...

The voting rule proposed by Basset and Persky (Public Choice 99:299–310, <CitationRef CitationID="CR2">1999</CitationRef>) picks the alternative with the best median evaluation. This paper shows that this MaxMed principle is equivalent to the MaxMin (so-called Rawls’) principle, with the proviso that one can discard half of the...</citationref>