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 …

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed …

Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong … support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and political engagement, recent work has cast doubt … voting eligibility on subsequent turnout and political preferences using rich panel data from the UK. Exploiting the …