The paper investigates general properties of power indices, measuring the voting power in committees. Concepts of local …

, under the hypothesis of majority voting. …

A desirable property of a voting procedure is that it be immune to the strategic withdrawal of a cadidate for election … condition is incompatible with some other desirable properties of voting procedures. This article shows that Grether and Plott …

I exploit the unique institution of gender-segregated voting booths in Chile, allowingthe use of actual voting data …

We study the tax systems that arise in a once-and-for-all majority voting equilibrium embedded within a macroeconomic … model of inequality. We find that majority voting delivers (i) a small set of outcomes, (ii) zero labor income taxation, and … (iii) nearly zero transfers. We find that majority voting, contrary to the literature developed in models without …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

of voting and participation behavior integrating instrumental and expressive motivations. The model is estimated using … analyze how these preferences are translated into actual voting outcomes. The results reveal a substantial gap (“participation …