How majorities can lose the election Another voting paradox

Marco Haan and Peter Kooreman

Social Choice and Welfare, 2003, vol. 20, issue 3, 509-522

Abstract: We show that due to free riding of potential voters facing positive voting costs, the proposal with the highest number of supporters can still be the most likely to lose a binary election. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

Date: 2003
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