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 …

candidates and when voters may express indifference, every voting rule satisfying Condorcet's principle must generate both of …

I analyze a costly voting model of elections, in which the incumbent can stuff the ballot box, to investigate how … electoral fraud affects the participation decisions of voters. I find that two stable equilibria may exist: first, a full … positive externality they produce on other voters when deciding to cast their votes, participation in coordination equilibrium …

The paper investigates general properties of power indices, measuring the voting power in committees. Concepts of local …

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 …

What are the best voting systems in terms of utilitarianism? Or in terms of maximin, or maximax? We study these … questions for the case of three alternatives and a class of structurally equivalent voting rules. We show that plurality …, arguably the most widely used voting system, performs very poorly in terms of remarkable ideals of justice, such as …

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