We distinguish between (i) voting systems in which voters can rank candidates and (ii) those in which they can grade … candidates, such as approval voting, in which voters can give two grades — approve (1) or not approve (0) — to candidates. While …

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 …

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …

Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the … alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval … voting, allowing the scores 0, 1; range voting, allowing all numbers in an interval as scores; evaluative voting, allowing …

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 … "paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …

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 … apply to them. All voting procedures that have been proposed, with the exception of approval voting, involve restrictions on …

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 … all voting methods are cardinal and therefore outside the reach of Arrow's result. Parallel to Arrow's ordinal approach …

A high court has to decide whether a lawis constitutional, unconstitutional, or interpretable. The voting system is … runoff. Runoff voting systems can be interpreted both, as social choice functions or as mechanisms. It is known that, for … universal domains of preferences, runoff voting systems have several drawbacks as social choice functions. Although in our …