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 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 …

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

This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop … upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with … electoral district-level upward mobility we find that the likelihood of a legislator voting "no" on redistributive education …

majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …