The welfare consequences of strategic behaviour under approval and plurality voting

Aki Lehtinen

European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, vol. 24, issue 3, pages 688-704

Abstract: This paper studies the welfare consequences of strategic behaviour under approval and plurality voting by comparing the utilitarian efficiencies obtained in simulated voting under two behavioural assumptions: expected utility-maximising behaviour and sincere behaviour. Under approval voting utilitarian efficiency is relatively high irrespective of the behavioural assumption, and under the plurality rule strategic voting significantly increases utilitarian efficiency.

Date: 2008

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