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 …