On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union
We study indirect democracy in which countries, states, or districts each elect a representative who later votes at a union level on their behalf. We show that the voting rule that maximizes the total expected utility of all agents in the union involves assigning a weight to each district’s vote and then sticking with the status quo unless at least a threshold of weighted votes is cast for chan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X
DOI: 10.1086/501172