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 …

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

characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting … does not arise, because the benefit of voting does not vanish with population size. (ii) Turnout in elections is positively … related to the size of the local community and the importance of social interactions. (iii) Voting may exhibit bandwagon …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

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 …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets …