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The Perversity of Weighted VotingJournal of Politics. forthcoming.Weighted voting involves weighting representatives’ votes by the populations that they represent. Such systems have been adopted in some legislative bodies as a remedy for malapportionment, and are sometimes used to elect candidates for the executive branch of government. But they receive little attention. This note observes the neglected vices of weighted voting systems: they violate intuitive conditions of monotonicity and participation. These vices count significantly against the use of weigh…Read more
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University of PennsylvaniaAssociate Professor
Princeton University
PhD, 2016
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Epistemology |
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Philosophy of Law |
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