candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex … things, on prior ideological beliefs about parties and/or candidates. Voters that are ex ante indifferent about the … impact of increased political knowledge on turnout is asymmetric: New information increase the probability of voting of …

political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …-coalitions. Consequently, under simple-majority voting rule, a majority of voters might be strictly worse o↵ due to the controller’s influence …

's decision. I find that in such a case, group members are induced to comply with preexisting biases. For example, if the voting … conservatism of the voting rule. When the decision making process becomes transparent and individual votes are observed, this … effect disappears and such committees are then more likely to accept reforms. I also find that coupled with the right voting …