Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154893 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 35.1998
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We model the decision problems faced by the members of societies whose new members are determined by vote. We adopt a number of simplifying assumptions: the founders and the candidates are fixed; the society operates for a fixed number of periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as many candidates as they wish; voters assess the value of the streams of agents with whom they share the society, while they belong to it. In spite of these simplifications, we show that interesting strategic behaviour is implied by the dynamic structure of the problem: the vote for friends may be postponed, and it may be advantageous to vote for enemies. We discuss the existence of different types of equilibria in pure strategies and point out interesting equilibria in mixed strategies.
Subjects: 
Voting
Elections
Clubs
Game theory
Noncooperative games
Pure-strategy equilibrium profiles
Refinements
JEL: 
C7
D7
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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