decision by mitigating a voting externality. Hence, institutions may adopt public voting when the fear of blame is too little …, and secret voting when the fear is too much. We also show that public voting is particularly desirable in committees with … overly biased members or overly biased voting rules against the alternative …

This paper develops the symmetric power order, a measure of voting power for multicandidate elections. The measure … generalizes standard pivotality-based voting power measures for binary elections, such as Banzhaf power. At the same time, the … symmetric power order to show that pivotality only measures voting power in monotonic elections, and is not a good measure in …

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

Experts' voting behavior is conjectured to be more objective than peer voting (own group/peers) and public voters … (everyone interested), who are supposedly influenced by all sorts of subjective aspects. We examine differences in voting … behavior between these groups by analyzing the voting outcomes for all-star teams in American Football. This paper analyzes the …