This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

exit does not require new negotiations as the success of a voting initiative only depends on the number and total …

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 …