The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer …

, enhancing the social exclusivity of market purchases. In effect, majority voting may lead to a public provision that only a …

Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We … foundation win the 2018 Presidential election, and that its effects persisted into the next election. We show how economic power … can translate into political power in polities with de jure competitive elections but with de facto weak accountability. …