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On The Self-(In) Stability Of Weighted Majority Rules

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  • YARON AZRIELI

    (The Ohio State University)

  • SEMIN KIM

    (Yonsei University)

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A voting rule f is self-stable (Barber`a and Jackson [4]) if any alternative rule g does not have sufficient support in the society to replace f, where the decision between f and g is based on the rule f itself. While Barber`a and Jackson focused on anonymous rules in which all agents have the same voting power, we consider here the larger class of weighted majority rules. Our main result is a characterization of self-stability in this setup, which shows that only few rules of a very particular form satisfy this criterion. This result provides a possible explanation for the tendency of societies to use more conservative rules when it comes to changing the voting rule. We discuss self-stability in this latter case, where a different rule F may be used to decide between f and g.

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  • Yaron Azrieli & Semin Kim, 2016. "On The Self-(In) Stability Of Weighted Majority Rules," Working papers 2016rwp-95, Yonsei University, Yonsei Economics Research Institute.
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    Voting rules; weighted majority rules; self-stability.;
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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