A set of voters consults experts before voting over two alternatives. Experts observe private signals about the values … of the alternatives and can reveal their information or conceal it, but cannot lie. We examine how disclosure and voting … vary with preference biases, signal precision, and the voting rule. Unanimity rule can lead to greater information …

analyze the voting behavior of members who take into account the effect of their votes not only on the chosen alternative, but …

treatments (different prior and signal distributions) that pose different challenges for the voters. In one, simply voting for …

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 …

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 …

treatments (different prior and signal distributions) that pose different challenges for the voters. In one, simply voting for …

We offer complete characterizations of the equilibrium outcomes of two prominent agenda voting institutions that are … equivalently the Euro-Latin procedure. Our axiomatic approach provides a proper understanding of these voting institutions, and … allows comparisons between them, and with other voting procedures. …

political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …