Does Confidential Proxy Voting Matter?

Coercion-Resistant Proxy Voting

Strategic Proxy Voting

Despite its importance, voting in the elections of corporate boards of directors remains relatively unexplored in the empirical literature. We construct a comprehensive dataset of 3,204,890 mutual fund votes in director elections that took place between July 2003 and June 2005. We …nd substantial systematic heterogeneity in fund voting patterns: some mutual funds are management friendly, and ot...

Proxy Voting for Better Outcomes

We consider a social choice problem where only a small number of people out of a large population are sufficiently available or motivated to vote. A common solution to increase participation is to allow voters use a proxy, that is, transfer their voting rights to another voter. Considering social choice problems on metric spaces, we compare voting with and without the use of proxies to see whic...

Does voting history matter : analysing persistence in turnout

Does Marriage Matter to Women and Men?

Purpose: the transformation of marriage patterns and family formation by following transition from traditional society to a modern society causes changes in goals, function of family formation. The aim of this study was comparative investigation of the attitudes of single and married individuals about marriage function. Materials and method: the study performed by qualitative method. The statis...