joint decisions inside the institution are made based on the plurality voting rule. We show that, comparing to the unanimity … voting rule, the plurality rule results in a significant and large decrease in the institution initiation rate, along with a … choice of the voting rule does not significantly affect the average contribution level or efficiency. …

that those unintuitive predictions also hold with sequential voting. In this paper, we report paired experiments with …In a model of simultaneous voting, Feddersen and Pesendorfer (1998) consider the possibility that jurors vote … sequential and simultaneous voting under unanimity and majority rule. Observed behavior varies significantly depending on whether …

voting experiments. To evaluate the effect of complexity we adopt a level-k reasoning model concept. This model by Nagel [1 …, increasing payoff amounts does promote more strategic behavior in a significant manner. Our results show with complex voting …

threshold. On the other hand, a lower electoral threshold increases the representativeness of a legislature. We combine these … two effects in a notion of fairness. We show the existence of an electoral threshold that optimizes the fairness of a … political system, which is close to 1-5%. Namely, the optimal threshold (in our sense) is close to thresholds that exist in most …

Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as …

treatments (different prior and signal distributions) that pose different challenges for the voters. In one, simply voting for …