United We Vote
Paper Number:
1208
Date:
12/01/2004
Abstract:
This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents in a larger electorate can obtain by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and cast them all in one direction. We show under which conditions an agent will benefit from the formation of the voting bloc, whether being part of it or stepping out is most advantageous for an individual agent and what are the different optimal internal voting rules to aggregate preferences within the coalition.
Paper Length:
35 pages
Paper:
wp1208.pdf