The basic approval voting game

JF Laslier, MR Sanver - Handbook on approval voting, 2010 - Springer
There is a vast literature which conceives Approval Voting as a mechanism where the
approval of voters is a mere strategic action with no intrinsic meaning. As usual, a group of …

Weighted committee games

S Kurz, A Mayer, S Napel - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Many binary collective choice situations can be described as weighted simple voting games.
We introduce weighted committee games to model decisions on an arbitrary number of …

Cognitive hierarchy and voting manipulation in k-approval voting

E Elkind, U Grandi, F Rossi, A Slinko - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract By the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem, every reasonable voting rule for three or
more alternatives is susceptible to manipulation: there exist elections where one or more …

Democratic elections and centralized decisions: Condorcet and Approval Voting compared with Median and Coverage locations

MBC Menezes, GJC da Silveira, Z Drezner - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, we focus on the quality of Condorcet and Approval Voting winners using
Median and Maximum Coverage problems as benchmarks. We assess the quality of …

The problem of the divided majority: preference aggregation under uncertainty

ĐG Granić - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reports on the results of a series of experimental laboratory elections. The novelty
of the design allows me to study the extent to which voting methods defeat the Condorcet …

Promoting the physician–patient consensus with a hesitant fuzzy linguistic consensus method based on betweenness relation

H Wu, P Ren, Z Xu - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
As the relationship between physicians and patients faces increasing challenges, physician–
patient relation has gradually become the common concern of the whole society. To relieve …

Bargaining through approval

M Nunez, JF Laslier - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper considers two-person bargaining under Approval Voting. It first proves the
existence of pure strategy equilibria. Then it shows that this bargaining method ensures that …

Selecting the Condorcet winner: single-stage versus multi-stage voting rules

M Peress - Public Choice, 2008 - Springer
In this paper, I study elections where voters are strategic. I find that the commonly used
voting rules, such as Plurality Rule, Majority Rule, Approval Voting, and Single Transferable …

Weak undominance in scoring rule elections

A Dellis - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
Weak undominance is a standard refinement in the voting literature. This work characterizes
the set of weakly undominated voting strategies in scoring rule elections. Scoring rules are …

[HTML][HTML] The Trembling Chairman Paradox

C Alós-Ferrer - Games and Economic Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chairman Paradox (Farquharson, 1969) is a classical observation in voting
games showing that a Chairman endowed with tie-breaking power might end up with her …