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The social dilemma of microinsurance : a framed field experiment on free-riding and coordination

Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber - 2012

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Solving the inverse power problem in two-tier voting settings

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

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Choosing voting systems behind the veil of Ignorance : a two-tier voting experiment

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

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Positional power in hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2007

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in hierarchies. One of the problems with the extant literature on positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare...

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Is transparency to no avail? : committee decision-making, pre-meetings, and credible deals

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2007

Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...

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Separating real incentives and accountability

Vieider, Ferdinand M. - 2008

In experimental investigations of the effect of real incentives, accountability-the implicit or explicit expectation of a decision maker that she may have to justify her decisions in front of somebody else-is often confounded with the incentives themselves. This confounding of accountability...

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Axiomatizations of a positional power score and measure for hierarchies

Brink, René van den; Steffen, Frank - 2008

and power measure for one of the most studied decision models, namely that of binary voting. …

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Identification of voters with interest groups improves the electoral chances of the challenger

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2009

, by coordinating voting behavior,these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy …

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Balanced consistency and balanced cost reduction for sequencing problems

Brink, René van den; Chun, Youngsub - 2010

We investigate the implications of imposing balanced consistency and balanced cost reduction in the context of sequencing problems. Balanced consistency requires that the effect on the payoff from the departure of one agent to another agent should be equal between any two agents. On the other...

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The effects of learning in interactive monetary policy committees

Berk, Jan Marc; Bierut, Beata K. - 2004

likely not to result in interdependent voting behaviour.Therefore, and in contrast to earlier literature, we find that …

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