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- Title
Protecting Minorities through the Average Voting Rule.
- Authors
Renault, Régis; Trannoy, Alain
- Abstract
In the average voting rule, the outcome is some weighted average of votes. The unique average voting outcome is characterized by a median formula, which depends on voters' preferred allocations and some parameters constructed from voters' weights. A minority is said to be protected by a switch in voting rule if the outcome becomes closer to the median bliss point of the minority. Sufficient conditions for minority protection are that, either the minority's weight is sufficiently large or the majority outcome is too unfavorable to the minority. Applications to the composition of public goods and to public expenditures level are considered. We explore the combined use of average and majority voting in a two-stage procedure for determining the level and the composition of public expenditures.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spending; VOTING; PUBLIC finance; DECISION making; PUBLIC administration
- Publication
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2005, Vol 7, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
1097-3923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9779.2005.00200.x