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Rational Choice Theory and the Paradox of Not Voting [PDF]

open access: bronzeJournal of Economic Perspectives, 2004
Timothy Feddersen
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One Share - One Vote: the Theory [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Finance, 2008
Abstract The theoretical literature on security-voting structure can be organized around three questions: What impact do nonvoting shares have on takeover outcomes? How does disproportional voting power affect the incentives of blockholders?
Burkart, Mike, Lee, Samuel
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The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A welfarist critique of social choice theory

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2015
This paper provides a philosophical critique of social choice theory insofar as it deals with the normative evaluation of voting and voting rules. I will argue that the very method of evaluating voting rules in terms of whether they satisfy various ...
Aki Lehtinen
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Corporate Governance Development with E-voting Services

open access: yesУправленческие науки, 2020
The paper discribes the method of remote voting at shareholders meetings via the Internet. The methodology of the study is based on the theory of agent costs.
B. S. Bataeva
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Securing e-voting based on blockchain in P2P network

open access: yesEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019
Electronic voting (e-voting) is an electronic means for casting and counting votes. It is an efficient and cost-effective way for conducting a voting procedure, which has characteristic of being magnanimous data and real time and requesting high safety ...
Haibo Yi
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Theory of Voting

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract This chapter presents the economic theory of voting. It begins with the positive theory, considering why people vote and when abstention is rational. Next, it presents the median voter theorem, which predicts the outcomes of some elections.
Robert D. Cooter, Michael D. Gilbert
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Voting and the Cardinal Aggregation of Judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The paper elaborates the idea that voting is an instance of the aggregation of judgments, this being a more general concept than the aggregation of preferences. To aggregate judgments one must first measure them.
A Johnston   +20 more
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Condorcet's Theory of Voting [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review, 1988
Condcrcet's criterion states that an alternative that defeats every other by a simple majority is the socially optimal choice. Condorcet argued that if the object of voting is to determine the “best” decision for society but voters sometimes make mistakes in their judgments, then the majority alternative (if it exists) is statistically most likely to ...
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