Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171715 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 17/272
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
We introduce a two-stage, multiple-round voting procedure where the thresholds needed for approval require a qualified majority and vary with the proposal on the table. We apply such a procedure to instances of public-good provision where the citizens’ valuations can take two values and are private. We show that the procedure elicits and aggregates the information about the valuations and implements the utilitarian optimal public good level. This level is chosen after all potential socially optimal policies have been considered. We also develop a compound procedure to ensure utilitarian optimality when there are arbitrarily finitely many types of citizen.
Subjects: 
voting
utilitarianism
implementation
JEL: 
C72
D70
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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