Weighted Voting as a New Tool of Democratic Elections

Voting System: elections

A voting system allows voters to choose between options. And, an election is an important voting system to select a cendidate. In 1951, Arrow’s impossibility theorem in [1] showed that intuitively desirable criteria were mutually contradictory. Gibbard(1973) [2] and Satterthwaite(1975) [3] independently proved that for at least three alternatives, every Pareto optimal and non-manipulable choice...

Voting after the bombing: Can terrorist attacks change the outcome of democratic elections?

Economists have recently turned their attention to the effects of terrorism. One much debated effect of terrorist attacks is its impact on the results of democratic elections. To answer this question we use the terrorist attacks of the 11-M in Madrid as a natural experiment. We consider this particular case since the attack took place only three days before the 2004 Congressional Election, whic...

Bidirectional voting and continuous voting concepts as possible impact of Internet use on democratic voting process

A Multiagent System for Modeling Democratic Elections

We address the problem of simulate democratic elections via a set of competing agents. We propose a logical model based on a set of non-cooperative agents which compete for attracting a maximum number of votes from a population. Each agent builds a set of strategies (formed by the promises, actions and proposals of the agent) used to convince to the potential voters.

A theory of voting in large elections

This paper provides a game-theoretic model of probabilistic voting and then examines the incentives faced by candidates in a spatial model of elections. In our model, voters’ strategies form a Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE), which merges strategic voting and probabilistic behavior. We first show that a QRE in the voting game exists for all elections with a finite number of candidates, and t...