of the unknown plays an important role in human decision making, including voting. This article describes a theoretical …

According to retrospective voting a bad economy hurts the incumbent party and vice versa. According to risk …-aversion voting a bad economy favors the Democrats over the Republicans and vice versa. This paper provides a test of both theories … and rejects risk-aversion voting …

cheapest combination of bribes that guarantees the proposal's passing in different voting environments. We find that for both … expensive. In small committees, sequential voting increases cost while the opposite is true for large committees. On the other … hand, additional members and transparent voting rules lower the cost …