members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees …

’s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether …

We analyze the voting behavior of a board of directors that has to approve (or reject) an investment proposal with … obstacle to profit maximization provided that an appropriate sequential voting protocol is followed. We also show that a proper …

positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …

ideological policy dimension. Voters achieve this outcome by following a simple lexicographic voting strategy. They cast their …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting … does not arise, because the benefit of voting does not vanish with population size. (ii) Turnout in elections is positively … related to the size of the local community and the importance of social interactions. (iii) Voting may exhibit bandwagon …