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Assessment voting in large electorates
Gersbach, Hans; Mamageishvili, Akaki; Tejada, Oriol - 2017 - This version: December 2017
We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787214
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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495051
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The effect of limited search ability on the quality of competitive rent-seeking clubs
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Kriesler, Kobi - 2010
A competitive rent-seeking club (CRSC) offers its members the chance of winning a prize (status, position, privilege) by being selected, typically, by a civil servant or a politician. The selector replaces in our setting the usual contest success function; instead of determining the winner on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962676
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Symmetric and asymmetric committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162101
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Symmetric and asymmetric committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309640
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The impact of lobbying on the allocation of political authority
Falconieri, Sonia - 2001
This paper studies the internal organizational design of politicalinstitutions in presence of lobbying. We consider a legislature ascomposed of two bodies: the floor and an informational committee. Thefloor has the (formal) power to choose the policy to be implemented.The policy outcome is ex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317444
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Intra-group heterogeneity in collective contests
Nitsan, Shemuʾel; Ueda, Kaoru - 2013
Collective contests are examined permitting heterogeneity of stakes within every competing group. Our first concern is whether unequal distribution of stakes in a group can enhance its win probability. Our second concern is whether a large stake in a group can be individually disadvantageous. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700302
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The Effect of Limited Search Ability on the Quality of Competitive Rent-Seeking Clubs
Nitzan, Shmuel - 2011
A competitive rent-seeking club (CRSC) offers its members the chance of winning a prize (status, position, privilege) by being selected, typically, by a civil servant or a politician. The selector replaces in our setting the usual contest success function; instead of determining the winner on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130048
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122583
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123565