a threshold number of individual votes. We investigate optimal voting rules that maximize the committee's expected …

perfectly and dominantly control the voting results of the committee search activities. The most important prediction is that … nonpivotal voters become less picky in committee search than in single-agent search, but that a pivotal voter's voting behavior … remains unchanged, regardless of the type of voting rules for the search. However, our experimental results did not support …

search duration rises with committee size on patient committees but falls with committee size on impatient committees …

perfectly and dominantly control the voting results of the committee search activities. The most important prediction is that … nonpivotal voters become less picky in committee search than in single-agent search, but that a pivotal voter's voting behavior … remains unchanged, regardless of the type of voting rules for the search. However, our experimental results did not support …