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 …

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 …

We consider a model of common-value sequential voting in which voters are differentiated in their information. We ask … whether the intuition as in the simultaneous-voting case---voters with no information would vote so as not to influence the … outcome---would be valid to imply long voting in our sequential setting. We find that any voting outcome, including short …

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