Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to … aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its … the other agent's vote.This in turn determines the decision to acquire information. In the debate about a rationalchoice …

political process and the production of policy relevant information; on the role played by probing into candidates' past; and on …

We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select … voting rule should encourage parties to collect information. Voting rules that focus on the opposition party sometimes … information. However, in contrast to office motivated parties, policy motivated parties will sometimes select policies that …