during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …

We compare Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and Plurality Voting (PV) in elections with 3 candidates. Voters receive … their preferences sincerely. We provide conditions under which RCV will ensure both the existence of a sincere voting …

committee to make decisions through voting is that a commitment device can be created out of it, without totally renouncing … flexibility to respond to unexpected contingencies. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a … can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee …

This paper develops the symmetric power order, a measure of voting power for multicandidate elections. The measure … generalizes standard pivotality-based voting power measures for binary elections, such as Banzhaf power. At the same time, the … symmetric power order to show that pivotality only measures voting power in monotonic elections, and is not a good measure in …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …