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

the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

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

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …

the Second World War. Using municipalitylevel data in a difference-in-differences framework, our analysis suggests that …