Sebastien Turban
California Institute of Technology,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Baxter Hall
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 228-77
Pasadena, CA 91125
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NBER Working Papers and Publications
| September 2014 | Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate
with Alessandra Casella, Gregory J. Wawro: w20461
We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with Storable Votes, allowing each senator to allocate freely a fixed number of total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win occasionally, but only when the relative importance its members assign to a nomination is higher than the relative importance assigned by the majority. Numerical simulations, motivated by a game theoretic model, show that under plausible assumptions a minority of 45 senators would be able to block betwe... Published: Alessandra Casella & Sébastien Turban & Gregory Wawro, 2017. "Storable votes and judicial nominations in the US Senate," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 29(2), pages 243-272, April. citation courtesy of 
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