perfectly and dominantly control the voting results of the committee search activities. The most important prediction is that … nonpivotal voters become less picky in committee search than in single-agent search, but that a pivotal voter's voting behavior … remains unchanged, regardless of the type of voting rules for the search. However, our experimental results did not support …

search duration rises with committee size on patient committees but falls with committee size on impatient committees …

empirical evidence on the impact of geographical proximity to refugee reception centres on voting behaviour. Our analysis … that were mounting in the population to influence people's voting …

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

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule …. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in the spirit of Condorcet, a symmetric composition of committees is not always … committees. However, in the special case of only two skill levels, it is optimal to compose the committees evenly …