voting body may affect the balance of power between the original members even if their number of votes and the decision rule … this effect using laboratory experiments. Participants propose and vote on how to divide a budget according to weighted … majority voting rules, and we measure the voting power of a player by his average payoff in the experiment. By comparing voting …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voters. This phenomenon can be due to bandwagon voting or a false consensus effect. The social science literature reports … both effects for voting decisions. Replicating Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence for a …

, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …

voting outcome in period t becomes the status quo in period t+1. We study symmetric Markov equilibria of the resulting game … alternative, and the discount factor (committee impatience). We report several new findings. Voting behavior is selfish and myopic …

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …