This paper presents a Downsian model of political competition in which parties have incomplete but richer information than voters on policy effects. Each party can observe a private signal of the policy effects, while voters cannot. In this setting, voters infer the policy effects from the party...

In this study, we examine a model of endogenous apportionment. Society determines by majority vote the allocation of weights in a council (or parliament) of state representatives. Each citizen decides his vote by considering which allocation induces a higher chance that the council will make his...

In an indirect voting system, a “majority inversion” occurs if a majority decision of locally elected delegates differs from that of the entire society. In the context of an apportionment problem, we point out a close relationship between reducing the probability of majority inversion and...