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democracy. This study investigates the impact of voting rules on the perception of legitimacy in a democratic government.Using a … human subject experiment, 120 participants cast their votes using four voting methods: Majority voting, Combined Approval … Voting, Score Voting, and modified Borda Count. The experiment was conducted in two contexts: a non-consequential setting …
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We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where the choice is binary and it is known that a majority of the voters supports one of the two alternatives. Voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. We identify a sufficient condition...
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security and in repressing organized crime. Moreover, socio-economic well-being is the main driver of voting behavior. In … understanding of the observed varieties of non-mainstream parties and voting or abstention behavior …
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …
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We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is …
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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 …
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voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … information on preference intensities. Nonetheless, we show that often simple voting is optimal for two-person committees. This …
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the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …
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