We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about … decision is made. The reason for this result is that communicationmay aggravate the free-rider problem associated with …

affects the behavior of committee members and the decision-making accuracy. Our theoretical analysis generates two major …

consensus that has been rarely answered: to what degree is the meaning of consensus dedicated to decision-making and when is it … of cultural techniques and affordances, a combined approach that extends deliberative democratic theory by emphasising … drawback: the unintended technocratic co-optation of consensus for efficient decision-making, a trend that neglects the …

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection. Agents collect information about … that a correct decision is made. The reason for this result is that communication may aggravate the free-rider problem …

Negotiators and decision-makers are typically embedded within a web of existing social relations. Taken as a whole …, these relations define an implicit social structure which can influence the decision outcome. One aspect of this structure … here can identify groups of decision-makers with a contextual affinity (i.e., membership in a given medical specialty or …