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Voting Power and Voting Blocs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 We investigate the method of power indices to study voting power of members of a legislature that has voting blocs. Our analysis is theoretical, intended to contribute to a theory of positive political science in which social actors are motivated by the pursuit of power as measured by objective power indices. Our starting points are the papers by Riker
Dennis Leech, Robert Leech
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Utilitarian Collective Choice and Voting [PDF]
, 2004 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.
Claude Hillinger, Hillinger, Claude
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Trading votes for votes: A laboratory study [PDF]
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Casella, Alessandra, Palfrey, Thomas R.
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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]
, 2005 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
Hillinger, Claude
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Civic Involvement among Egyptian Youth: The Effect of Personal Socio-Economic Factors on Youth Voting in Egypt [PDF]
المجلة المصرية للسکـان وتنظيم الأسرة, 2011 This study focuses on civic participation. Young Egyptians show low interest in participating in voluntary service programs and in joining social groups.
Iman Ismail
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Simulations in Models of Preference Aggregation
Œconomia, 2020 Social choice theory provides a theoretical framework for analyzing how to combine individual opinions, preferences, interests or welfare so as to reach a collective decision.
Mostapha Diss, Eric Kamwa
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Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting [PDF]
, 2020 Imagine an American democracy remade by its citizens in the very image of its promise, a society where the election system is designed to allow citizens to perform their most basic civic duty with ease.
Working Group on Universal Voting
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Gender Differences in Civic and Political Engagement and Participation Among Italian Young People
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2021 A substantial amount of literature has revealed gender gaps in political participation. However, little is known about such gaps when using more comprehensive measures of civic and political participation including online participation.
Serena Stefani +5 more
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Voting under time pressure [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 In a controlled laboratory experiment we investigate whether time pressure influences voting decisions, and in particular the degree of strategic (insincere) voting.
Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Michele Garagnani
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Social Sciences, 2023 Party leaders are increasingly relevant to voters’ choices in parliamentary systems. However, most studies addressing the electoral impact of leaders have largely ignored voters’ emotional responses to party leaders.
Ángel Cazorla Martín +2 more
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