Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …

using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …

This paper uses experiments to explore electoral accountability in a legislative system that favors seniority. Voters …

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

voting. …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …