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. …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the voting behavior of a board of directors that has to approve (or reject) an investment proposal with … obstacle to profit maximization provided that an appropriate sequential voting protocol is followed. We also show that a proper …

members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees … perform at least as well as homogeneous committees. In particular, when value-maximizers outnumber biased members by one vote …

We study voting over education subsidies where poor individuals may be excluded and the rich may chose private …

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

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment … subject opts for killing. The fraction of subjects deciding to kill is higher when pivotality is diffused. The likelihood of … killing is monotone in subjective perceptions of pivotality. On an aggregate level many more mice are killed in Diffused-Pivotality …