Under evaluative voting, the voter freely grades each candidate on a numerical scale, with the winning candidate being determined by the sum of the grades they receive. This paper compares evaluative voting with the two-round system, reporting on an experiment which used various evaluation...

Notre contribution défend la thèse selon laquelle le paradoxe libéralparétien, formulé en 1970 par Sen, plaide en faveur de l’élaboration d’un nouveau formalisme en termes de métaclassement des préférences. Il s’agit d’enrichir la structure de préférences traditionnelle par la...

In The Idea of Justice, Sen describes two competing approaches to theorizing about justice: “transcendental institutionalism,” in which he includes Rawls, and “realization-focused comparison,” in which he includes Condorcet and himself. This paper questions the robustness of his...

In this paper we present the result of a distribution experiment where players must choose between a maximin, equity-dominant solution and a Hicks optimal, efficiency-dominant distribution. Three different information conditions are used. Under the certainty condition, inequity aversion has no...