Threshold voting leads to Type-Revelation

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2015
Volume: 136
Issue: C
Pages: 211-213

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Abstract

Under Threshold voting, voters casts ballots which include a vector of cardinal utilities (a type) and a real number (a threshold). We prove that a voter has an incentive to reveal his type: for each insincere ballot, there is a sincere ballot that the voter prefers.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:136:y:2015:i:c:p:211-213
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General
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1
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2026-01-26