decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …

Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet …. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot …-informed subordinates have no chance to prevent the decision from being implemented. We offer a dynamic model of non-democratic politics, in …