A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in VAAs - voting advice applications, e … balance of public opinion on every issue is determined. The degree to which the parties match with it is expressed by the … parties' representativeness indices of popularity (the average percentage of electors represented on all the issues) and …

representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of … European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of distribution of voting weights among the member states proportionally to … square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …

values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …

sincere voting is an equilibrium outcome of our model for a large set of parameter values implying the possibility of ex post … conflict between committee members. Furthermore, abandonning the assumption of sincere voting, we characterize necessary and …