In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

I discuss instances where a committee wants to deviate from the simple majority rule by adopting an alternative voting … scheme for two consecutive binary ballots. The alternative voting rule, called Minority Voting as an Exception (MVE), works … voting winners, i.e. the minority of project winners, lose their voting rights for the upcoming second ballot, where the …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing … minority versus the majority, and the aggregate payoffs all match the theory. …

Prior research on 'strategic voting' has reached the conclusion that unanimity rule is uniquely bad: it results in … that the issue being voted on is exogenous, i.e., independent of the voting rule used. We depart from the existing … opposing preferences. In this case, unanimity is the Pareto dominant voting rule. Voters prefer unanimity rule because it …

We outline a new voting procedure for representative democracies. This procedure should be used for important decisions … only and consists of two voting rounds: a randomly-selected subset of the citizens is awarded a one-time voting right. The …

estimate the degree of manipulability of ten positional voting rules in the case of multiple choice for 3 and 4 alternatives. …