ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … more for an unpopular voting outcome than non ]pivotal decision makers. Our data also suggest that some voters avoid being …

This paper analyzes a boundedly rational decision maker who is uncertain about his preference and faces the following …-off there is an optimal number of goods that the decision maker wants to analyze before making his final choice. The choice of … with good consumer service can be a signal for high quality of the store. -- Decision making ; Bounded rationality ; Choice …

measure religious organizations power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters commitment to … recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

to the voting decision. These findings are important because the salience of public information is easily manipulable by …How does salient public information affect voters' behavior? In a majoritarian voting game with common preferences …

We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … about the state of the world have to make a binary decision. We investigate incentives for truthful revelation of their … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …