Browsing Working Papers by Subject "voting"

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    • Candidate Stability and Nonbinary Social Choice 
      Ehlers, Lars; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      A desirable property of a voting procedure is that it be immune to the strategic withdrawal of a cadidate for election. Dutta, Jackson, and Le Breton (Econometrica,2001) have established a number of theorems which demonstrate ...
    • Memetics & Voting: How Nature May Make us Public Spirited 
      Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We consider the classic puzzle of why people turn out for elections in substantial numbers even though formal analysis strongly suggests that rational agents would not vote. If one assumes that voters do not make systematic ...