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We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known …
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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 …
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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 … preferences are in fact homogeneous. By taking costs of time into account, we demonstrate that committees have strictly higher …
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during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …
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treatments (different prior and signal distributions) that pose different challenges for the voters. In one, simply voting for …
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …
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members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees … perform at least as well as homogeneous committees. In particular, when value-maximizers outnumber biased members by one vote …
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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We compare Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and Plurality Voting (PV) in elections with 3 candidates. Voters receive … their preferences sincerely. We provide conditions under which RCV will ensure both the existence of a sincere voting …
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committee to make decisions through voting is that a commitment device can be created out of it, without totally renouncing … flexibility to respond to unexpected contingencies. Appropriate voting procedures and a well chosen supermajority rule can make a … can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee …
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