We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

We analyze a psychologically-based model of voter turnout in an election with common value and uncertainty. Our model …

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly … equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on … the number of parties and on policy volatility are consistent with data on municipal elections in Italy, where cities with …

benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …