We examine shareholder voting on management-sponsored compensation proposals from 1992 through 2003 to determine how voting has evolved as a result of changes in the corporate governance environment. We investigate three questions: have regulatory changes and changes in investor sentiment affected voting; do the same factors appear to influence voting over time and has the impact of the various...

We propose a two-stage process called minority voting to allocate public projects in a polity. In the first period, a society decides by a simple majority decision whether to provide the public project. If the proposal in the first period is rejected, the process ends. Otherwise the process continues, but only the members of the minority keep agenda and voting rights for the second stage, in wh...

Electronic voting is an emerging social application of cryptographic protocols. A vast amount of literature on electronic voting has been developed over the last two decades. In this paper, we provide a framework that classifies these approaches and defines a set of metrics under which their properties can be compared. Such a methodology reveals important differences in security properties betw...

The number of countries that have adopted policies allowing emigrants to participate in home country elections from abroad has increased greatly the last few decades. enfranchisement non-resident citizens is, nevertheless, somewhat controversial because it gives political influence individuals who are unlikely be affected by outcome an election. Despite active debate on external voting rights a...

Electronic voting schemes can be divided into homomorphism encryption and anonymous channel based schemes. The former type requires massive communications and computation, thereby, inappropriate for large-scale voting. However, the soundness of the latter type heavily relies on the cooperation of the voters. Under these schemes, voting is disrupted if some voter abstains in the intermediate sta...

The facility voting location problems arise from the application of criteria derived from the voting processes concerning the location of facilities. The multiple location problems are those location problems in which the alternative solutions are sets of points. This paper extends previous results and notions on single voting location problems to the location of a set of facility points. The a...