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 …

We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known …

during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

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 …

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 …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but …There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

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 … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …