Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on … characterize the social choice rules implemented by sophisticated voting on agendas with these two features. I also characterize … related to the prevailing rules for order-of-voting used by legislatures. These results establish a clear connection between …

. Remaining (sophisticated) agents lie strategically and approximately apply their optimal decision rule. …

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

The common use of majority rule in group decision making is puzzling. In theory, it inequitably favors the proposer …

private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition …