A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …

Majority voting is considered an efficient information aggregation mechanism in committee decision-making. We examine … acquisition, voting, and overall efficiency. …

We consider a model of common-value sequential voting in which voters are differentiated in their information. We ask … whether the intuition as in the simultaneous-voting case---voters with no information would vote so as not to influence the … outcome---would be valid to imply long voting in our sequential setting. We find that any voting outcome, including short …

benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

Despite the wide variety of agendas used in legislative settings, the literature on sophisticated voting has focused on … characterize the social choice rules implemented by sophisticated voting on agendas with these two features. I also characterize … related to the prevailing rules for order-of-voting used by legislatures. These results establish a clear connection between …

conflicting interests. We show that the set of preferences that allow for the existence of an informative voting equilibrium can … voting threshold value. What's worse, the presence of the public information introduces an inefficient equilibrium which … robustly exists across different voting rules. To mitigate the harmful effect of the public information, we propose to use a …