 Balancing the Power to Appoint OfficersSalvador Barberà and Danilo Coelho No 25/2013, Economics and Politics Working Paper Series from Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília Abstract: Rules of k names are frequently used methods to appoint individuals to office. They are two-stage procedures where a first set of agents, the proposers, select k individuals from an initial set of candidates, and then another agent, the chooser, appoints one among those k in the list. In practice, the list of k names is often arrived at by letting each of the proposers screen the proposed candidates by voting for v of them and then choose those k with the highest support. We then speak of v-rules of k names. Our main purpose in this paper is to study how different choices of the parametrs v and k affect the balance of power between the proposers and the choosers. From a positive point of view, we analyze a strategic game where the proposers interact to determine what list of candidates to submit. From a normative point of view, we study the performance of different rules in expected terms, under different informational assumptions. The choice of v and k is then analyzed from the perspectives of efficiency, fairness and compromise. Keywords: Voting rules; Constitutional Design; Strong Nash equilibrium; Rule of k Names (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gvn:eprgwp:252013 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Economics and Politics Working Paper Series from Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília |
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