Unequal Altruism and the Voting Paradox

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tun-Jen Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

Vote Trading and the Voting Paradox: Rejoinder

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 967-969 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Koehler
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox ◽  
Vote Trading

The Budget-Voting Paradox

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Laffond ◽  
Jean Lainé
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

What is paradoxical about the voting paradox?

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 679-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred J. Holler
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

The Voting Paradox

1988 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Jerry S. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

The relevance of the voting paradox: a restatement

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred J. Holler
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

Clap happy: Applause and the voting paradox

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Pressman
Keyword(s):  
Voting Paradox

9. Votes, Elections, Legislatures, and Legislators

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Voting Paradox ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Difference

This chapter examines some of the central issues associated with voting and electoral systems, along with the functions of legislatures. It begins by discussing the two paradoxes of voting. First, the huge number of citizens in any modern state means that no individual's vote is likely to make the difference between two or more choices, making it potentially ‘irrational’ for any individual to bother to vote at all. Yet votes make democracy possible. The second voting paradox concerns the difficulty of relying upon votes to determine the objective preferences of the public. The chapter proceeds by considering measures that aim to establish quotas to increase gender equality in legislative recruitment. It also describes different types of legislatures and the internal structure of legislatures. Finally, it analyses trends in the backgrounds of legislators in various countries, specifically focusing upon the criticism that they constitute a ‘political class’.

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