Short-term Deviations from Simple Majority Voting

Theresa Fahrenberger ()
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Theresa Fahrenberger: CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

No 09/115, CER-ETH Economics working paper series from CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich

Abstract: I discuss instances where a committee wants to deviate from the simple majority rule by adopting an alternative voting scheme for two consecutive binary ballots. The alternative voting rule, called Minority Voting as an Exception (MVE), works as follows: In the first ballot a b-majority rule is used, where b

Keywords: voting; minority; communal politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2009-07
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