Legitimacy and representation: A comprehensive study of electoral systems and strategic voting behaviour

什么是好的选举制度？它如何在保证少数群体代表性的同时反映多数群体的偏好？投票是自愿的还是强制的？这些问题对任何民主国家都非常重要，对澳大利亚尤其如此：澳大利亚一直站在选举辩论的前列，自豪地努力公平地代表其非常多样化的社会的所有阶层，投票不仅是公民的权利，也是公民的义务。通过在博弈论的框架内探讨这些问题，本项目建议通过对选举制度的全面研究来调查投票的战略性质。然后，该项目将通过一系列实验室实验来测试我们的理论预测。

What makes a good electoral system? How can it reflect the preference of the majority while guaranteeing representation to minorities? Should voting be voluntary or mandatory? These are very relevant questions for any democracy, but particularly so for Australia: a country which has always been at the forefront of the electoral debate, that proudly strives to represent with fairness all sectors of its very diverse society and where voting is not only a citizen's right, but also her duty. By approaching these issues in a game theoretic framework, this project proposes to investigate the strategic nature of voting through a comprehensive study of electoral systems. The project will then test our theoretical predictions through a series of laboratory experiments.