This paper presents a Downsian model of political competition in which parties have incomplete but richer information than voters on policy effects. Each party can observe a private signal of the policy effects, while voters cannot. In this setting, voters infer the policy effects from the party...

In this study, we examine a model of endogenous apportionment. Society determines by majority vote the allocation of weights in a council (or parliament) of state representatives. Each citizen decides his vote by considering which allocation induces a higher chance that the council will make his...