Many motivations exist that cause legislators to behave strategically when voting. These include logrolling, towing the … effects simulation, I calculate the overall effect on voting from “flipping” a senator’s vote, allowing flipped votes to have …

plausible explanation seems to be that agents receive a warm glow from the act of voting itself.ÊÊ However, this begs the …-spiritedness is disadvantageous. The details depend on the costs of voting, the extent to which different types of citizens agree or …

the empirical evidence. (1) Contrary to the litany that everyone favors reforms, we find that voting for strong reform …

executive (President) are riddled with voting paradoxes. Superior to a single vote are some methods with preference orderings …

reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …

discuss how we can capture the complexity of voting behaviour by applying graph theory in networks and we develop a simplified … theoretical model of voting choice adopting the basic heuristics of the behavioural decision theory. We feel that such a complex …We suggest in this paper that voting in political systems can be profitably analysed using complex system analysis. We …