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 …

Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We …

's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively … 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 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 …

Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when … favor of a break-up of the global group. Voting for a break-up of the global group is more likely when global group members …

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 …

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have …

commercial vendor. In our main experiment, conducted in the fall of 2020, we find that, on average, our mailers increased voter …

We conduct an experiment where subjects are matched in groups of three and vote on a moral transgression. Analyzing … different voting rules, the frequency of votes for the moral transgression increases with the number of votes required for it … us to identify guilt sharing and preferences for consensual voting as empirically relevant and independent drivers of …