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 aim of this paper is to propose a picture of French political supply in 2007 as perceived by voters, with no a priori ideas regarding the relevant political dimensions. Our study is based on experimental data collected during the French presidential elections on April 22nd, 2007. Two...

During the first round of the French Presidential election of April 22nd, 2012, voters of three French municipalities were invited to test approval voting and three types of evaluation voting. This paper presents the main results of that experiment. After correction of the participation and...

[eng] Public decision-makers seek to maximize social welfare , hence to satisfy the population’s individual preferences. How do the systems for gathering information on agents’ preferences affect the quality and the interpretation of public decision-making ? The paper applies a...

This paper is a study of Bentham's felicific calculus. Challenging a view that contrasts 'cardinal' to 'ordinal' calculus, we show that these two forms of calculus constitute instead different phases of a single approach. Bentham sometimes has to rely upon proxy variables because of operational...

The core idea of utilitarianism for Bentham is to establish that only individual utilities count in social welfare. There can be two distinct interpretations of this apparently simple principle. According to one view, individual utilities represent the basic information for the calculation of...