during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

expert decide” in committee voting is influenced by the probability of corrupt experts, and that influence can have, to a …

political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

Majority voting is considered an efficient information aggregation mechanism in committee decision-making. We examine … acquisition, voting, and overall efficiency. …

group of people who make a decision by voting on a proposal. An outside expert who observes the qualities of a proposal …

her own bias. In other words, the expert's cheap talk prevents a voting procedure from aggregating decision makers …