A set of voters consults experts before voting over two alternatives. Experts observe private signals about the values … of the alternatives and can reveal their information or conceal it, but cannot lie. We examine how disclosure and voting … vary with preference biases, signal precision, and the voting rule. Unanimity rule can lead to greater information …

We analyse committees of voters who take a decision between two options as a two- stage process. In a discussion stage …, voters share non-verifiable information about a private signal concerning what is the best option. In a voting stage, votes …

We analyse committees of voters who take a decision between two options as a two- stage process. In a discussion stage …, voters share non-verifiable information about a private signal concerning what is the best option. In a voting stage, votes …

voting. Under influence, these decisions can become inefficient. Therefore, the market for policies may be more likely to …, and payoff and information structures. We discuss implications for the efficiency of democracy, voting, lobbying …

voting outcome in period t becomes the status quo in period t+1. We study symmetric Markov equilibria of the resulting game … alternative, and the discount factor (committee "impatience"). We report several new findings. Voting behavior is selfish and …

can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee`s … committee to make decisions through voting is that a commitment device can be created out of it, without totally renouncing … flexibility to respond to unexpected contingenices. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a …

. In this paper policies are negotiated in a committee by playing a dynamic voting game. The implications of this change …

This paper analyzes truthtelling incentives in pre-vote communication in heterogeneous committees. We generalize the … sincere voting is an equilibrium outcome of our model for a large set of parameter values implying the possibility of ex post … conflict between committee members. Furthermore, abandonning the assumption of sincere voting, we characterize necessary and …

search duration rises with committee size on patient committees but falls with committee size on impatient committees …