's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

We present the first economic experiment on bandwagon behavior in voting. Subjects are given an individual endowment … that the voting behavior differs across treatments in a way that is consistent with bandwagon voting. They also confirm the … importance of instrumental motives and – unlike the majority of previous experiments – find support for expressive voting motives …

's recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 2005–2010. It employs (individual) voting records of the … indicators and voting records. Recent evidence for the monetary policy committees of advanced economies (see Besley et al., 2008 …

A set of voters consults experts before voting over two alternatives. Experts observe private signals about the values … of the alternatives and can reveal their information or conceal it, but cannot lie. We examine how disclosure and voting … vary with preference biases, signal precision, and the voting rule. Unanimity rule can lead to greater information …

sincere voting is an equilibrium outcome of our model for a large set of parameter values implying the possibility of ex post … conflict between committee members. Furthermore, abandonning the assumption of sincere voting, we characterize necessary and …

In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …-coalitions. Consequently, under simple-majority voting rule, a majority of voters might be strictly worse o↵ due to the controller’s influence …