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 …

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

in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …

in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …

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 …

Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

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