during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal. …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

The literature on the behavior of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has focused on static voting …

each district. We analyze the Markov perfect equilibrium under different voting q-rules where q is the number of yes votes … experiment with fiveperson committees that compares three alternative voting rules: unanimity (q=5); majority (q=3); and …