We study decision rules for committees that repeatedly take a binary decision. Committee members are privately informed … voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … structure of repeated decision-making allows for richer decision rules that overcome this inefficiency by making use of …

convene and discuss, before finalizing their collective decision with a vote. We show that the voting structure (whether the … overall committee information-gathering and decision-making process. Specifically, simultaneous voting is correlated with: a …, and consequently the quality of the collective decision. Our context is the US Food and Drug Administration Advisory …

of Arrow Conditions -- The Method of Majority Decision: Conditions for Transitivity and Quasi-Transitivity -- Strategic …

In this paper the concepts of manipulation as strategic voting (misrepresentation of true preferences) and strategic …

Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the … alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval … voting, allowing the scores 0, 1; range voting, allowing all numbers in an interval as scores; evaluative voting, allowing …