during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

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 …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

social and political participation to interpersonal trust, in its benign and destructive manifestations. The impact of media …

candidates and when voters may express indifference, every voting rule satisfying Condorcet's principle must generate both of …

I analyze a costly voting model of elections, in which the incumbent can stuff the ballot box, to investigate how … electoral fraud affects the participation decisions of voters. I find that two stable equilibria may exist: first, a full … positive externality they produce on other voters when deciding to cast their votes, participation in coordination equilibrium …