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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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

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Is Transparency to no avail? Committee Decision-making, Pre-meetings, and Credible Deals

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...

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Deliberation, Information Aggregation and Collective Decision Making

Swank, Otto H.; Wrasai, Phongthorn - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote onthe project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made....

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Is Transparency to no avail? Committee Decision-making, Pre-meetings, and Credible Deals

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

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Toward a transactional theory of decision making: creative rationality as functional coordination in context

Mousavi, Shabnam; Garrison, Jim - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2001) 2, pp. 131-156

rationality and deliberation, especially the procedural theory of rationality advanced by Herbert Simon. We demonstrate how modern …, habits are will; we control them when we identify them and condition them through reflective deliberation. To clarify our … rejects calculative Turing machine rationality. We argue that a theory that can deal with deliberation regarding …

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Context dependency and stakeholder involvement in EIA: the decisive role of practitioners

Blicharska, Malgorzata; Isaksson, Karolina; Richardson, Tim - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 54 (2011) 3, pp. 337-354

The outcomes of frameworks and practices for stakeholder involvement in environmental impact assessment (EIA) for road planning, under the umbrella of a common EU legal framework, are investigated here in specific national contexts. Data for the two empirical cases examined - Poland and Sweden -...

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The Enfranchisement Lottery

López-Guerra, Claudio - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 10 (2011) 2, pp. 211-233

This article compares the ‘enfranchisement lottery', a novel method for allocating the right to vote, with universal suffrage. The comparison is conducted exclusively on the basis of the expected consequences of the two systems. Each scheme seems to have a relative advantage. On the one hand,...

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Deliberation in large juries with diverse preferences

Hummel, Patrick - In: Public Choice 150 (2012) 3, pp. 595-608

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Towards reason: political disputes, public attention and the use of expert knowledge in policymaking

Lundin, Martin; Öberg, PerOla - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

used more, but that there will be less deliberation in situations of political disputes. It is also suggested that expert …

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Using metacognitive cues to infer others' thinking

Mata, André; Almeida, Tiago - In: Judgment and Decision Making 9 (2014) 4, pp. 349-359

Three studies tested whether people use cues about the way other people think---for example, whether others respond fast vs. slow---to infer what responses other people might give to reasoning problems. People who solve reasoning problems using deliberative thinking have better insight than...

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