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 …

have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for …

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy … and the market generates welfare losses, relative to simple majority voting, if the committee is large enough. We test the …

I propose a framework in which individual political participation can take two distinct forms, voting and contributing … shows that, even though each contribution has a negligible impact, the interaction between contributions and voting leads to …

behind this belief, using a simple model of voting in centralized and decentralized democracies. We find that the electoral …