the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication …

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. …

Regulation, with a focus on six countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and the United States) where individual …

elections. Independent candidates perform better in systems with plurality rule or preferential voting compared to party-list PR …

voting, concurrent national parliamentary elections, perceived weakness of domestic institutions and overall support for the …