We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …