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

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

I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a … dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first …

This paper both theoretically and experimentally studies the properties of plurality and approval voting when the … splitting their votes, or they coordinate but cannot aggregate information. With approval voting, expected welfare is strictly … equilibrium under plurality. Which one is selected depends on the size of the minority. Approval voting vastly outperforms …

We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences …

We use laboratory experiments to test for one of the foundations of the rational voter paradigm - that voters respond … insights. First, voting propensity increases systematically with subjects' predictions of their preferred alternative …

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …

future governments to provide public goods. We characterize the Markov Perfect Equilibrium of the dynamic voting game. If …