We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our …

private information truthfully before voting takes place. Depending on the distance between two feasible public good levels …, the optimal mechanism involves either one or two voting rounds. We show that procedural efficiency cannot be achieved by … communication among all citizens prior to voting. Finally, we outline several applications of the mechanism. …

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 …

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our …

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

Within-group communication in competitive coordination games has been shown to increase competition between groups and … communication, it leads to more aggressive competition and lower efficiency relative to the case when neither group can communicate …