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I develop a model of group decision-making, in which a committee generates proposals and holds open discussions, but the ultimate decision is either taken by a leader (decision by authority) or by majority vote. Optimal communication processes are studied that combine both cheap talk statements...
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but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by committees that meet regularly over time. At each meeting, committee …
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, when voting is costly and information is incomplete. In many real political institutions, ranging from small committees to …We compare the behaviour of voters, depending on whether they operate under sequential and simultaneous voting rules … mass elections, voting is sequential, which allows some voters to know the choices of earlier voters. For a stylized model …
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Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters...
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, more diverse preferences, more consensual deliberation rules, or more unanimous de- cision voting rules lead to lengthier … deliberation and more accurate decisions. Last, balanced committees unanimously prefer to delegate deliberation power to a moderate …
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The paper studies a voting scheme where members of a committee voting sequentially on a known series of binary … simple majority voting. But if one of the voters controls the order of the agenda, does the scheme become less efficient? The …
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In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision … alternative Council voting rules: those accepted in the Treaty of Nice and implemented by the Accession Treaty of ten 2004 …
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We examine the provision of public projects under tax and subsidy rules. We find that tax rules separated from project cum subsidy decisions exhibit several advantages when incentive problems of the agenda-setter are taken into account. In particular, tax rules may prevent the proposal of...
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We examine debt-sensitive majority rules. According to such a rule, the higher a planned public debt, the higher the parliamentary majority required to approve it. In a two-period model we compare debt-sensitive majority rules with the simple majority rule when individuals differ regarding their...
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Using a model of probabilistic voting, we analyse the impact of aid on the political equilibrium in the recipient …
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