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. …

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

states of the world. We characterize the optimal anonymous and deterministic voting rule and provide a homogeneity assumption … on preferences and beliefs under which sincere voting is a Nash equilibrium for this rule. We also provide a necessary … and sufficient condition for sincere voting to be an equilibrium under any deterministic majoritarian voting rule. We show …

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

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

, by coordinating voting behavior,these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy …

, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy …

voting outcome in period t becomes the status quo in period t+1. We study symmetric Markov equilibria of the resulting game … and conduct an experiment to test hypotheses generated by the theory for pure distributional (divide … alternative, and the discount factor (committee impatience). We report several new findings. Voting behavior is selfish and myopic …