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Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017

The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer, and paradoxically, it disadvantages voters further if they are inequity averse. In practice, however, outcomes are equitable. The present paper analyzes data from a novel...

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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding

Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023

We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...

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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence

Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023

Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...

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Cloturing deliberation

Anesi, Vincent; Safronov, Mikhail - 2021

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Implementing democracy in indirect voting processes : the Knesset case

Laruelle, Annick - 1997

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The political economy of trade and migration : evidence from the U.S. congress

Conconi, Paola; Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max … - 2018

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The ratification of ILO conventions : a failure time analysis

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2000

There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In...

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Pre-electoral coalitions : insights into the creation of political parties

Vallve, Rafael Hortala; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, … - 2021

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On the socially optimal majority rule : an extended calculus of consent

Guttman, Joel M. - 1992

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