Mueller, D. C. (1978). Voting by veto. Journal of Public Economics, 10(1), 57-75.

This paper describes a voting procedure for revealing preferences for public goods. The procedure consists of two steps: a proposal by each committee member to be added along with the status quo to form the issue set, and then, subsequent to a random determination of voting order, the elimination of one proposal from the issue set by each committee member. For any set of proposals and a given order of voting the procedure determines a unique, winning proposal. Under the procedure’s incentives, the winning proposal tends to contain an equal sharing of the potential gains from collective action among the committee members.

 

 

Mueller, D. C. (1978). Voting by veto. Journal of Public Economics, 10(1), 57-75.

https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(78)90005-1