Hans Gersbach, Akaki Mamageishvili, Oriol Tejada
arXiv 14 Dec 2017 · Econometrics · 2 citations (OpenAlex)
arXiv:1712.05470 · PDF · DOI · OpenAlex · Extracted main text
We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic societies. In the first round, a randomly-selected number of citizens cast their vote on one of the two alternatives at hand, thereby irrevocably exercising their right to vote. In the second round, after the results of the first round have been published, the remaining citizens decide whether to vote for one alternative or to ab- stain. The votes from both rounds are aggregated, and the final outcome is obtained by applying the majority rule, with ties being broken by fair randomization. Within a costly voting framework, we show that large elec- torates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with high prob- ability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting, which predicts either higher voting costs (when voting is compulsory) or decisions that often do not represent the preferences of the majority (when voting is voluntary).
appendix boundary found by appendix_command · 55% of the source is main text. Read the extracted text to check this.
The works this paper leans on most, across its whole bibliography — not restricted to papers in our corpus. Ranked by composite intensity, which combines how often a work is mentioned, how many sections mention it, and how much of that falls in the main text rather than the appendix.
| Reference | Intensity | Mentions | Sections | Main text | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taylor, C. R. and Yildirim, H (2010) A unified analysis of rational voting with private values and group-specific costs | 1.000 | 6 | 3 | 100% |
| 2 | Arzumanyan, M. and Polborn, M (2017) Costly voting with multiple candidates under plurality rule | 0.950 | 7 | 5 | 86% |
| 3 | Taylor, C. R. and Yildirim, H (2010) Public information and electoral bias | 0.928 | 4 | 3 | 100% |
| 4 | Börgers, T (2004) Costly voting | 0.644 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 5 | Myerson, R (2000) Large Poisson games | 0.644 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 6 | Krasa, S. and Polborn, M (2009) Is mandatory voting better than voluntary voting? | 0.644 | 2 | 2 | 100% |
| 7 | Agranov, M., Goeree, J. K., Romero, J., and Yariv, L (2017) What makes voters turn out: The effects of polls and beliefs | 0.405 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 8 | Battaglini, M (2005) Sequential voting with abstention | 0.405 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 9 | Bhattacharya, S., Duffy, J., and Kim, S.-T (2014) Compulsory versus voluntary voting: An experimental study | 0.405 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| 10 | Campbell, C. M (1999) Large electorates and decisive minorities | 0.405 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
Showing the top 10 of 21 scored citations.