There is a new proposal in area 51 about voting systems : http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97790/voting-systems.
Are questions on voting systems welcome here? Under which conditions?
There is a new proposal in area 51 about voting systems : http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97790/voting-systems.
Are questions on voting systems welcome here? Under which conditions?
The obvious answer is "questions about the economics of voting systems are on topic here". That's a bit vague, but I guess as a minimum it would include
Some things that should be off-topic would be
As Ubiquitious said, it's a bit difficult to say what kind of questions pop up.
It's related to political economics, but also to Political Science(@SE).
At the moment, all of the 8 example questions (negatively and positively voted) would be on-topic here. Perhaps as the number of example questions grows, we can find a border case that wouldn't be on-topic here anymore.
I would think that at the bare minimum all questions that would be on-topic in an economics journal should be considered on topic.
There are plenty of economics journals who publish papers from the theory of voting systems (Soc Choice and Welfare especially but also pretty much every theory journal). Thus, I would consider all questions from voting theory to be on-topic. Empirical papers on voting systems are harder to find in the economics literature but some exceptions exist.
Thus, unless there are other reasons which disqualify a question, I would assume questions on voting systems are on-topic.