Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as …

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

Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously … qualified majority voting. Our result shows that using a VCG mechanism is not superior to voting in general and justifies the … use of voting mechanisms. It thereby could explain why many decision rules employed in practice do not rely on monetary …

We propose a new single-winner voting system using ranked ballots: Stable Voting. The motivating principle of Stable … Voting is that if a candidate A would win without another candidate B in the election, and A beats B in a head … Stability for Winners (with Tiebreaking). Stable Voting satisfies this principle while also having a remarkable ability to avoid …

Majority voting is considered an efficient information aggregation mechanism in committee decision-making. We examine … acquisition, voting, and overall efficiency. …

In general, analyses of voting power are performed through the notion of a simple voting game (SVG) in which every … voter can choose between two options: 'yes' or 'no'. Felsenthal and Machover (1997) introduced the concept of ternary voting … property in weighted voting games with an increasing number of voters. It says that under certain conditions the ratio between …

their preferences on policy issues as declared in the party manifestos (like in VAAs - voting advice applications, e … questions. Due to these advances, the Third Vote can be considered an election-ready prototype of a voting method either for use …

Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on … characterize the social choice rules implemented by sophisticated voting on agendas with these two features. I also characterize … related to the prevailing rules for order-of-voting used by legislatures. These results establish a clear connection between …

In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …

In this paper the concepts of manipulation as strategic voting (misrepresentation of true preferences) and strategic …