This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled …) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

decision by mitigating a voting externality. Hence, institutions may adopt public voting when the fear of blame is too little …, and secret voting when the fear is too much. We also show that public voting is particularly desirable in committees with … overly biased members or overly biased voting rules against the alternative …

are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of nationalʺ coordination … methodology is used to evaluate voting power of national party groups in the cases of partisan and national coordination of voting …