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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation (And Why That May Be A Good Thing)

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2014

We show theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision making and deliberation. We present a model in which committee members have career concerns and unanimity is needed to change the status quo. We study three scenarios -...

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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting

Bütler, Monika; Benesch, Christine; Hofer, Katharina - 2015

We exploit a recent change in voting procedures in one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency affects the votes of Members of Parliament (MPs). Until 2013, the Council of States (St nderat) decided by hand rising. While publicly observable at the time of the...

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Tie-Breaking Power in Committees

Wagner, Alexander K.; Granic, Dura-Georg - 2017

We investigate the effects of voting power in a committee in which one member (the chairman) holds, on top of a regular vote, also the power to break ties. The chairman is able to induce her preferred outcome much more often than predicted by theory, but only partially because of exercising...

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The Impact of Election Information Shocks on Populist Party Preferences: Evidence from Germany

Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019

This paper investigates the effect of aggregate-level information shocks regarding support for a populist right-wing party on the individual disposition to report a respective political preference in survey interviews. Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its...

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Complex ballot propositions, individual voting behavior, and status quo bias

Hessami, Zohal; Resnjanskij, Sven - 2016

This paper analyzes how the complexity of ballot propositions influences individual voting behavior in direct-democratic elections. We combine micro-data from representative post-referendum surveys in Switzerland with unique data on a novel measure of proposition complexity which relies on a...

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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict

Morath, Florian; Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A. - 2015

experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is … higher if power is more imbalanced. Even though endogenous bargaining outcomes reflect the players' unequal fighting …

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Determinants of In-Court Settlements: Empirical Evidence from a German Trial Court

Berlemann, Michael; Christmann, Robin - 2016

Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...

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On the Optimal Size of Committees of Experts

Hahn, Volker - 2012

What is the optimal size of expert committees? To address this question, I present a model of a committee of experts with career concerns. Each expert may observe an argument about the state of the world and is unsure about the argument s soundness. Experts may remain silent or compete for the...

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River Sharing and Water Trade

Weikard, Hans-Peter; Ansink, Erik; Gengenbach, Michael - 2013

We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be su cient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite for...

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Arrovian aggregation of MBA preferences: An impossibility result

Herzberg, Frederik - 2013

Cerreia-Vioglio, Ghirardato, Maccheroni, Marinacci and Siniscalchi (Economic Theory, 48:341-375, 2011) have recently axiomatised preferences in the presence of ambiguity as Monotonic Bernoullian Archimedean (MBA) preferences. We investigate the problem of Arrovian aggregation of MBA preferences...

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