popular two social objective criteria used when evaluating voting mechanisms. For one particular probabilistic model …

Are people blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process? We conduct … an experimental voting game and analyze how pivotality affects responsibility attribution by parties who can be … negatively affected by the voting outcome. We measure responsibility attribution by assigned punishment points and find that …

weights as an imaginary voter submitting preferences over alternatives in the form of an ordered list. With this voting …

made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real …

experiment with fiveperson committees that compares three alternative voting rules: unanimity (q=5); majority (q=3); and … each district. We analyze the Markov perfect equilibrium under different voting q-rules where q is the number of yes votes …

members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, heterogeneous committees … perform at least as well as homogeneous committees. In particular, when value-maximizers outnumber biased members by one vote …

presence of biased members can improve the voting outcome by simplifying the strategies of unbiased members. Thus, committees …We analyze the voting behavior of a small committee that has to approve or reject a proposal whose return is uncertain … project approval and ignore their private information. We analyze different voting games when information is costless and …

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

We investigate experimentally the effects of corrupt experts on information aggregation in committees. We find that non … expert decide” in committee voting is influenced by the probability of corrupt experts, and that influence can have, to a …