economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …

the probabilities of project implementation as well as welfare (despite differences in individual voting behavior). Second …

intermediate levels of patience, this comparison may be reversed. Holding the fraction of votes required to stop fixed, expected … that unanimity is welfare maximizing. -- Sequential search ; voting …