more often than simple majority. In a series of laboratory experiments, we investigate how various rules affect the outcome …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

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 …

decreasing in disagreement values. We conduct experiments involving three players using majority and unanimity rule, finding …

Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions …. -- formal sanctions ; informal sanctions ; experiment ; voting ; cooperation ; punishment …

different voting schemes to determine the terms of the agreement. To this end, unanimity, qualified majority voting, and simple … majority voting are compared with respect to the resulting pollution abatement level and social welfare. At first sight in line … with theoretical predictions, the experiment shows that the change of the voting scheme implemented in an IEA does not …

). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non‐deterrent formal sanctions …