Chateau du Baffy, Normandy, France, 30 July ‒ 2 August 2010
This Voting Power in Practice workshop was generously sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust.
Workshop papers/abstracts
These were posted for the benefit of participants to read prior to the workshop. Often they are draft works in progress or have citation restrictions. Please do not quote from the texts without permission from the author. Affiliations and emails of all workshop participants are given at the end of the workshop programme above. The papers/abstracts below are listed in their order of presentation at the workshop.
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The underlying assumptions of electoral systems (PDF) by Moshé Machover (LSE and King's College London)
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The underlying assumptions of electoral systems ‒ comment on Machover (PDF) by Dan Felsenthal (University of Haifa and LSE)
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Review of paradoxes afflicting various voting procedures where one out of m candidates (m≥2) must be elected (PDF) by Dan Felsenthal (University of Haifa and LSE)
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On the relevance of theoretical results to voting system choice (PDF) by Hannu Nurmi (Public Choice Research Centre and University of Turku)
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The impact of group coherence on the likelihood of voting paradoxes (PDF) by William Gehrlein (University of Delaware) and Dominique Lepelley (University of La Réunion)
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The value of research based on simple assumptions about voters' preferences
(PDF) by William Gehrlein (University of Delaware) and Dominique Lepelley (University of La Réunion)
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Election inversions and the US Electoral College (PDF) by Nicholas Miller (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
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Assessing the probability of the referendum paradox (PDF) by Rahhal Lahrach (University of Caen) and Vincent Merlin (University of Caen)
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Electoral reform in Germany: A positive twist to negative voting weights? (PDF) by Friedrich Pukelsheim (University of Augsburg)
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Manipulability, decisiveness and responsiveness in voting rules (PDF) by William Zwicker (Union College)
See also section 4 of Voting with rubber bands, weights and strings (PDF)
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Putting paradoxes into perspective (PDF) by Ken Ritchie (Electoral Reform Society) and Alessandro Gardini (Electoral Reform Society)
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Which result for which voting rule? An analysis based on a framed field experiment on approval and evaluation voting rules (PDF) by A. Baujard (University of Caen), H. Igersheim (University of Strasbourg) and J. F. Laslier (École Polytechnique, Paris)
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In Silico voting experiments (PDF) by Jean-Francois Laslier (École Polytechnique, Paris)
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Social threshold aggregations (PDF) by F.T. Aleskerov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), V. V. Chistyakov and V. A. Kalyagin (State University Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
See also Tables & graphs (PDF)
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Approval balloting for fixed-sized committees (PDF) by D. Marc Kilgour and Erica Marshall (Wilfried Laurier University, Ontario, Canada)
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The structure of the election-generating universe (PDF) by T. Nicolaus Tideman (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia) and Florenz Plassmann (State University of New York at Binghamton)
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One-way monotonicity as a form of strategy proofness (PDF) by M. Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University, Istanbul) and William Zwicker (Union College)
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A stochastic synopsis of binary voting rules (PDF) by Olga Ruff and Friedrich Pukelsheim (University of Augsburg)