Agendas with Priority∗

While a wide variety of agendas are used in legislative voting, the literature focuses almost exclusively on Euro-Latin and Anglo-American agendas. These two agendas share three features common to many agendas used in practice: they are non-repetitive in that every vote eliminates some alternatives from consideration; continuous in that alternatives continue to be contested until they are either eliminated or selected; and, prioritarian in that the structure of the agenda discourages the choice of certain alternatives. In this paper, I characterize the much broader class of social choice rules implemented by sophisticated voting on agendas with these features. Not only does the result provide key insights into the kinds of strategic voting outcomes that can arise in the context of legislative voting, it has implications for issues ranging from implementation to tournament solutions and agenda manipulation. JEL Classification Numbers: C72; D02; D71; D72.