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

This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …

games. The roots of this bias are probably ideological, as there were no formal benefits for biased voting. Furthermore …This paper presents evidence on biased voting by jurors from the Warsaw Pact countries who ranked high-level chess …

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 …

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. …

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 …