"paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …The paper elaborates the idea that voting is an instance of the aggregation of judgments, this being a more general … has been unproblematic whenever it has been based on an independent and unrestricted scale. The scales analyzed in voting …

The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general … possibility theorem" precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be … flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are cardinal and that Arrow's result, based on preference orderings cannot …

In his seminal Social Choice and Individual Values, Kenneth Arrow stated that his theory applies to voting. Many voting … theorists have been convinced that, on account of Arrow's theorem, all voting methods must be seriously flawed. Arrow's theory … theory leaves k to be determined on pragmatic grounds. A (1,0) scale gives approval voting. I prefer the scale (1,0,-1) and …

We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is …

Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain …

We investigate how an explicit blank vote option “None of the above” (NOTA) on the ballot paper affects voting behavior …

during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …