This paper develops the symmetric power order, a measure of voting power for multicandidate elections. The measure … generalizes standard pivotality-based voting power measures for binary elections, such as Banzhaf power. At the same time, the … symmetric power order to show that pivotality only measures voting power in monotonic elections, and is not a good measure in …

political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …

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

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

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 …

). Unlike previous studies that were based on case studies or interviews with stakeholders, we analyse the voting power of MEPs …

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

This paper examines the link of political participation and employment status in a dualized labor market. Both insiders … and outsiders can actively take part in political decision-making, e.g. by voting for a certain party. Insiders only have …