parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if …

We compare the behaviour of voters, depending on whether they operate under sequential and simultaneous voting rules …, when voting is costly and information is incomplete. In many real political institutions, ranging from small committees to … mass elections, voting is sequential, which allows some voters to know the choices of earlier voters. For a stylized model …

Northern vs. the Eastern Enlargement. It also rationalizes the general move from unanimity voting to different types of …

outcomes in the above-described hierarchy. Our aim is to derive ex ante optimal voting rules in the setting where decision …-making can be modelled as a spatial voting game. We thus assume that the players have spatial preferences but the rules are …

, more diverse preferences, more consensual deliberation rules, or more unanimous de- cision voting rules lead to lengthier …

We introduce endogenous political parties into the Hotelling-Downs voting framework to model the selection of …