The work of Vernon Smith that has come to be associated with the label “Humanomics” offers both substantive and methodological amendments to economic theory. On the substantive level, Humanomics offers a theory human agency that is distinct from both neoclassical and behavioral economics. We...

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 chosen under the veil of ignorance. In our experiment,...

We consider social choice functions (SCFs) that are locally robust ordinal Bayesian incentive compatible (LOBIC) with respect to correlated priors. We model such priors using a betweenness property and assume the coexistence of both positively and negatively correlated priors. We introduce the...

Across many contexts, majority rules are used as a decision-making procedure to coordinate conflicts within groups. Despite the prevalence of majority rules procedures, it is unclear how children think about majority rules as a way to resolve group disagreements in early childhood, and how this...

Direct confrontation between majority rule (MR) and the most in-depth studied scoring rules - the Borda rule (BR) and the plurality rule (PR) - on the basis of their fundamental weaknesses (violating one of the two principles: majoritarianism and suitable recognition of preference intensity) has...

Complex and important policy decisions are often made with advice from a committee of experts, where experts first convene and discuss, before finalizing their collective decision with a vote. We show that the voting structure (whether the experts vote sequentially or simultaneously) plays a...

Political polarization in the United States has increased dramatically, hampering the functioning of American government. Some scholars attribute this dynamic to the use of plurality elections and posit that a ranked choice voting (RCV) system may promote greater bipartisanship. Maine’s 2016...

Criminal groups use violence strategically to manipulate the behavior of victims and bystanders. At the same time, violence is a stimulus that causes fear, which also shapes people’s reactions. Taking advantage of the randomness in the timing of antipersonnel landmine accidents in Colombia, as...

Under majoritarian election systems, securing participation and representation of minorities remains an open problem, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV): each voter has as many votes as open positions and can...