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 …

in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the … literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments …, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game …