In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …

voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … information on preference intensities. Nonetheless, we show that often simple voting is optimal for two-person committees. This …

Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result … deliberations typically involve a moderator, however, whose role has been under-examined. We conduct a field experiment to test the …. Before voting, they participated in group discussions of about five people each with one moderator. Some (randomly assigned …