qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …

I discuss instances where a committee wants to deviate from the simple majority rule by adopting an alternative voting … scheme for two consecutive binary ballots. The alternative voting rule, called Minority Voting as an Exception (MVE), works … voting winners, i.e. the minority of project winners, lose their voting rights for the upcoming second ballot, where the …

informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …

In this paper we address several issues related to collective dichotomous decision-making by means of quaternary voting … rules, i.e., when voters may choose between four actions: voting yes, voting no, abstaining and not turning up-which are … aggregated by a voting rule into a dichotomous decision: acceptance or rejection of a proposal. In particular we study the links …