We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them … individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information …

individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decision-making. We show that increasing … 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 …

private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition …

We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

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 … voting behavior. …

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes … more-equal party representation on the Court encouraging greater party awareness in Justice voting, and less-equal party …

less likely to comply with civic duties such as voting and paying taxes. Exclusion erodes civic responsibilities. …

affects the behavior of committee members and the decision-making accuracy. Our theoretical analysis generates two major … the probabilities of project implementation as well as welfare (despite differences in individual voting behavior). Second …

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 …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …