We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members, who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their … preferences are in fact homogeneous. By taking costs of time into account, we demonstrate that committees have strictly higher …

This paper analyzes truthtelling incentives in pre-vote communication in heterogeneous committees. We generalize the … sincere voting is an equilibrium outcome of our model for a large set of parameter values implying the possibility of ex post … conflict between committee members. Furthermore, abandonning the assumption of sincere voting, we characterize necessary and …

We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known … heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees of strategic communication. We use a 2 x 2 design varying the information … protocol (communication vs exogenous public signals) and the group composition (heterogeneous vs homogeneous). Results are only …

bargain over an ideological and a distributive decision. Communication takes place before a proposal is offered and majority … rule voting determines the outcome. When the private information pertains to the ideological intensities but the … ideological positions are publicly known, it may not be possible to have informative communication from the legislator who is …

bargain over an ideological and a distributive decision. Communication takes place before a proposal is offered and majority … rule voting determines the outcome. When the private information pertains to the ideological intensities but the … ideological positions are publicly known, it may not be possible to have informative communication from the legislator who is …

of the project and about being considered well informed. Before voting on the project, members can exchange their private … committees to show a united front. These results hold irrespective of whether information can be manipulated or not. Also … those of the member casting the decisive vote. Our last result is that the optimal voting rule balances the quality of …

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule …. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in the spirit of Condorcet, a symmetric composition of committees is not always … committees. However, in the special case of only two skill levels, it is optimal to compose the committees evenly. …

nodes in a communication network. However, communication through the network is noisy, which removes common knowledge about …