Elections and voting methods by Antonin Macé

In this podcast, Antonin Macé presents the different voting methods in a democracy, their advantages and limitations, as well as alternatives such as approval voting. He explains in particular how these systems influence electoral results and democratic representation.

Antonin Macé is a researcher at the CNRS, professor at the Paris School of Economics and head of studies of the economic department at the École Normale Supérieure - PSL. His research focuses on collective decisions: he studies the voting methods for elections, the voting procedures in committees, as well as the representativeness of inter-committeestate. His work is at the interface between political economy and economic theory.

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Ahn D. S. & Oliveros S., 2016, "Approval voting and scoring rules with common values", Journal of Economic Theory, 166, 304-310.

Bouton L., Llorente-Saguer A., Macé A. & Xefteris D., 2024, "Voting Rights, Agenda Control and Information Aggregation", Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae035.

Casella A., Laslier J. F. & Macé A., 2017, "Democracy for polarized committees: the tale of Blotto’s lieutenants", Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 239-259.

Casella A. & Macé A, 2021, "Does vote trading improve welfare?", Annual Review of Economics, 13(1), 57-86.

Durand F., Macé A. & Nunez M, 2024, "Voter coordination in elections: a case for approval voting", Games and Economic Behavior, 146, 1-34.

Laslier J. F., 2011, And the loser is… plurality voting, Electoral systems: paradoxes, assumptions, and procedures (pp. 327-351), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

List C., 2013, Social choice theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Pons V. & Tricaud C., 2018, "Expressive voting and its cost: Evidence from runoffs with two or three candidates", Econometrica, 86(5), 1621-1649.

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