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 …

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 …

A disturbing phenomenon in voting, which causes most of the problems as well as the interest in the field, is that … these settings allowing multiple election outcomes? By combining properties of the geometry of voting developed by Saari …

The requirement that a voting procedure be immune to the strategic withdrawal of a candidate for election can be … this candidate stability property are incompatible with some other desirable properties of voting procedures. This article …

, political attitude, gender and intelligence have a small but sometimes significant influence on voting. …

We present the first economic experiment on bandwagon behavior in voting. Subjects are given an individual endowment … that the voting behavior differs across treatments in a way that is consistent with bandwagon voting. They also confirm the … importance of instrumental motives and – unlike the majority of previous experiments – find support for expressive voting motives …

) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 2005–2010. It employs (individual) voting records of the … indicators and voting records. Recent evidence for the monetary policy committees of advanced economies (see Besley et al., 2008 …

opponents' strategies under certain hypothetical events (e.g., winning the auction or being pivotal). We design a voting …