Measuring majority power and veto power of voting rules

We study voting rules with respect to how they allow or limit a majority from dominating minorities: whether a voting rule makes a majority powerful and whether minorities can veto the candidates they do not prefer. For a given voting rule, the minimal share of voters that guarantees a victory to one of the majority’s most preferred candidates is the measure of majority power; and the minimal share of voters that allows the minority to veto each of their least preferred candidates is the measure of veto power. We find tight bounds on such minimal shares for voting rules that are popular in the literature and used in real elections. We order the rules according to majority power and veto power. Instant-runoff voting has both the highest majority power and the highest veto power; plurality rule has the lowest. In general, the greater is the majority power of a voting rule, the greater its veto power. The three exceptions are: voting with proportional veto power, Black’s rule and Borda’s rule, which have relatively weak majority power and strong veto power, thus providing minority protection. Our results can shed light on how voting rules provide different incentives for voter participation and candidate nomination.

     

The Functional Dynamic of Ukraine's “Maidan”

The author analyzes the dynamics of Ukraine's Euromaidan protest movement. He argues that the movement should be divided into two phases, with the first being organized without support from the political opposition and focused primarily on European integration. This phase ended quickly as a result of repressive actions on the part of the government. In the second phase, the opposition became one of the main driving forces and the goals revolved around regime change.     

How to Clean Out the Augean Stable of Our Bureaucracy

The authors consider possible ways to reform decision-making procedures for the hiring of personnel for state service.     

Radicalized Europeans?

Based on an original survey, the author examines the values of participants in the Euromaidan protest. He finds that the protestors’ values are much more comparable to those of the population of Western Europe and Scandinavia than to the general population of Ukraine. The protestors placed relatively high value on the common good and cared relatively little for personal achievement.     

On Fiduciary Relationship with Artificial Intelligence Systems

Liverpool Law Review - This article aims to address the theoretical and practical issues of fiduciary relationship with artificial intelligence systems. The findings point out that human can...     

Public Service Reform in Russia, 1991–2006

This article assesses Russia's post-Soviet efforts to reform its public service in order to meet the challenges of social and economic transition and describes both obstacles to the creation of a modern public service and efforts to overcome them. First, the authors provide a snapshot of the public service in Russia since 1991. Second, they describe aspects of the Soviet legacy that have impeded efforts to modernize the public service. Third, they identify some of the traumas of transition experienced in the 1990s that have circumscribed efforts at reform. Finally, the authors identify gaps between the legislation enacted by the Duma and the limited implementation of that legislation to date. The article concludes with an assessment of the current status of public service reform in Russia.     

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation,No. 1223 of November 5, 1999, "On Measures to Prevent Penetration of the Territory of the Russian Federation by Members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Importation of Weaponry and Means of Sa

The distinctive characteristic of regional budgets for the coming year is the entry into force of federal law No. 131 on local self-government. In all of the oblasts elections have occurred and new bodies of local self-government have appeared that are supposed to have the corresponding treasury to fulfill all of the functions assigned to them.