We study the effect of public information on collective decision-making in a committee with members of both common and … conflicting interests. We show that the set of preferences that allow for the existence of an informative voting equilibrium can … be heavily restricted by the presence of a public signal, regardless of the size of the committee and the choice of the …

Weighted committees allow shareholders, party leaders, etc. to wield different numbers of votes or voting weights as … such as plurality, Borda, or antiplurality rule. Many different weights induce the same mapping from committee members …