affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …

than in theory. …

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 …

Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously … qualified majority voting. Our result shows that using a VCG mechanism is not superior to voting in general and justifies the … use of voting mechanisms. It thereby could explain why many decision rules employed in practice do not rely on monetary …

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

This paper discusses the implications of strategic voting for institutional design in environments where the only role … voting game, a fictitious designer has to select the optimal voting rule. We consider a rich set of designer's beliefs about … voters' behavior including: strategic voting, informative voting, and level-k voting. We show that the optimal voting rule is …