We introduce 'Balanced Voting', a new voting scheme that is particularly suitable for making fundamental societal …, and others that care much less. In a two-stage procedure, Balanced Voting works as follows: Citizens may abstain from … voting on a fundamental direction in a first stage. In a second voting stage, this guarantees them a voting right on the …

The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity … this EU intra-institutional voting method using a rational choice approach and emphasizes that there are situations when … subjects such as voting power distribution. It also addresses several shortcomings of the Liberal Intergovernmentalist …

Democratic direct voting on issues (in the form of referenda) suffers from the tyranny of the majority as well as … potentially supporting extremist and populist positions. We state 4 fair voting principles for issue based voting, and show that … current direct voting systems are not consistent with the principles. A two stage balanced, cumulative voting process using …

We propose a new voting system, satisfaction approval voting (SAV), for multiwinner elections, in which voters can …, as under approval voting (AV), but those who maximize the sum of the satisfaction scores of all voters, where a voter … does AV (this is demonstrated empirically in the case of a recent election of the Game Theory Society). A decision …

Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective decisions. In practice, a … voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way ballots are tallied to determine winners. Voters are … ballot responses. Such responses can include strategic misrepresentation of preferences. Voting procedures are formalized by …