This paper considers collective decision-making when individuals are partitioned into groups (e.g., states or parties) endowed with voting weights. We study a game in which each group chooses an internal rule that specifies the allocation of its weight to the alternatives as a function of its...

This paper analyzes the optimal size of a deliberating committee where (i) there is no conflict of interest among individuals and (ii) information acquisition is costly. The committee members simultaneously decide whether to acquire information, and then make the ex-post efficient decision. The...

In an indirect voting system, a “majority inversion” occurs if a majority decision of locally elected delegates differs from that of the entire society. In the context of an apportionment problem, we point out a close relationship between reducing the probability of majority inversion and...