. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members …

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

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 …

committee members are to correctly identify the abilities of the different candidates …

voting and implementing term limits. We find that an approval voting system reduces the distortions by 7.5 percent. Term …

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure …. Using this new measure of the opportunity cost of voting to predict turnout at the individual level, we find that small …

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 …

inversely with the size of his committee. In the special case of three-member committees, we show that the optimal allocation … maximizes the sum of the products of the experts' skills in each committee …

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 …