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 …

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

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 …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

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 …

the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …

We conduct an experiment to investigate (i) whether rotation in voting increases a committee's efficiency, and (ii) the … important consequences: it 'pays' to be allowed to vote, as voting committee members earn significantly more than non-voting …

We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …