Although most of the political-economy literature blames inefficient policies on institutions or politicians' motives to supply bad policy, voters may themselves be partially responsible by demanding bad policy. In this paper, we posit that voters may systematically err when assessing potential...

We show how an outside party offering incentives to a committee can manipulate at no cost collective decisions made through voting. This contrasts with previous contributions--which ignore the possibility of outside influence--highlighting the advantages of using committees making decisions...