Optimal voting rules have to be adjusted to the underlying distribution of preferences. However, in practice there … themselves choose voting rules according to which they decide in a second stage may increase the sum of individuals' payoffs if … understand how privately informed individuals decide when they choose voting rules and when they vote. Efficiency concerns play …

Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously … qualified majority voting. Our result shows that using a VCG mechanism is not superior to voting in general and justifies the … use of voting mechanisms. It thereby could explain why many decision rules employed in practice do not rely on monetary …

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …