In a recent paper published in MSS, Wilson and Pritchard (2007) exhibit some results suggesting that the limiting probability of the referendum paradox given in Feix et al. (2004) could be wrong. After having explained the origin of this disagreement, we propose in this note some further...

A society facing a choice problem has also to choose the voting rule itself from a set of different possible voting rules. A voting rule is self-selective if it chooses itself when it is also used in choosing the voting rule. A set of voting rules is said to be stable if it contains at least one...