Making Statements and Approval Voting

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Making Statements and Approval Voting

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Enriqueta Aragones (Institut d’Analisi Economica, C.S.I.C.)
Itzhak Gilboa (Tel-Aviv University and Cowles Foundation, Yale University)
Andrew Weiss () (Department of Economics, Boston University)

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Abstract

We assume that people have a need to make statements, and construct a model in which this need is the sole determinant of voting behavior. In this model, an individual selects a ballot that makes as close a statement as possible to her ideal point, where abstaining from voting is a possible (null) statement. We show that in such a model, a political system that adopts approval voting may be expected to enjoy a significantly higher rate of participation in elections than a comparable system with plurality rule.

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Paper provided by Cowles Foundation, Yale University in its series Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers with number 1531.

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Date of creation: Aug 2005
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D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Models of Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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NEP-ALL-2005-08-13 (All new papers)
NEP-CDM-2005-08-13 (Collective Decision-Making)
NEP-POL-2005-08-13 (Positive Political Economics)

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Steven Brams & Peter Fishburn, 2005. "Going from theory to practice: the mixed success of approval voting," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 25(2), pages 457-474, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Brams, S.J. & Fishburn, P.C., 2003. "Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting," Working Papers 03-06, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University. [Downloadable!]

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Miguel Angel Ballester & Pedro Rey-Biel, 2007. "Sincere Voting with Cardinal Preferences: Approval Voting," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 675.07, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC). [Downloadable!]

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