legislative effectiveness. It considers the role of gender and mindful decision-making. Gender affects judgment through the style … of mindfulness by state legislators and whether mindful decision-making improves the quality and effectiveness of … legislative decision-making. Additionally, we will examine whether there is a difference in gender of mindful legislative decision …

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about … decision is made. The reason for this result is that communicationmay aggravate the free-rider problem associated with …

This paper investigates a widespread yet understudied trend in EU politics: the de facto shift of legislative decision … decision-making is likely to occur. Competing and equifinal expectations are drawn from rational choice and sociological …, based on sociological institutionalism, we argue that informal decision-making results from the emulation of tested decision …

Extensive scholarly attention is devoted to citizens' preferences for alternative models of political decision … void in the literature, our article analyzes the determinants of preferences for citizens as decision-makers. It uses …

This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs …. These findings demonstrate the importance of preferences as a channel through which political decision-making institutions …

manipulate a legislature decision increases with the number of elected parties, and, consequently, decreases with an electoral …