The paper considers a general model of electoral systems combining districtbased elections with a compensatory mechanism in order to create any outcome between strictly majoritarian and purely proportional seat allocation. It contains vote transfer and allows for the application of three different correction formulas. Analysis in a two-party system shows that a trade-off exists for the dominant...

Recently, Ivan Damgaard and Mads Jurik proposed a protocol for protecting Internet voters against hackers. The protocol ensures that hackers with full control of the computer of a voter will be unable to see what the voter votes. Further, if the hacker tampers with the vote and tricks the voter to vote for a different candidate, the vote will be for an arbitrary candidate (uniformly distributed...

abstract the feminist movement in the united states like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. from the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the u.s. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. one of the important issues in which women played a key role in party p...

This report examines the group responsiveness questions asked on the 1998 NES Pilot Study. These questions were designed to assess voter perceptions of candidate support for specific groups. We provide some descriptive information on these new measures, and estimate their performance as predictors of intended vote choice. We find that the questions do a fairly good job of distinguishing between...

We present cross-national analyses – both cross-sectional and longitudinal – estimating the vote shares for approximately 80 parties across Western Europe from 1984 to 1998. The results indicate that parties’ vote shares increase with their proximity to the centre of the voter distribution, although the effects are relatively small. These findings corroborate the theoretical results reported by...

A vote-buying mechanism is such that each agent chooses a quantity of votes x to cast for an alternative at a cost c(x), and the outcome is determined by the total number of votes cast for each alternative. In the context of binary decisions, we prove that the welfare optima that can be implemented by vote-buying mechanisms in large societies are parameterized by a positive parameter ρ, which m...

A hybrid voting system allows voters to revoke their electronic vote at the polling station. This approach is meant to provide full individual and universal verifiability without introducing the threats of vote buying or voter coercion. Such an integration of traditional and electronic voting systems requires the voters’ ability to prove whether they have already voted electronically, and if so...