This paper provides a theoretical foundation that supports the degressive proportionality
principle in apportionment problems, such as the allocation of seats in a federal parliament …

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We consider the design of decision rules in an environment with two alternatives,
independent private values and no monetary transfers. The utilitarian rule subject to …

We analyze and evaluate the different decision rules describing the Council of Ministers of
the EU starting from 1958 up to now. Most of the existing studies use the Banzhaf index (for …

Which voting weights ought to be allocated to single delegates of differently sized groups
from a democratic fairness perspective? We operationalize the one person, one vote …

This paper studies the issue of constitutional design, and supermajorities in particular, from
a behavioral economics perspective. The relevant parameters are voting power, risk …

Given a large enough population of voters whose utility functions satisfy certain statistical
regularities, we show that voting rules such as the Borda rule, approval voting, and …

Almost all economic activities in modern societies are scattered through space and time.
Transport processes, as a consequence, pervade everyday life and they have deep impact …

A large population of voters with single-peaked preferences are partitioned into disjoint
constituencies. Collective decisions are taken by their representatives, one from each …

One of the main problems of practical applications of degressively proportional allocations of
goods and burdens is lack of uniqueness of this principle. Even under given boundary …