efficient cue for making decisions and have to search for other information if they are to make a reasoned decision … partisan elections, but the effects are less pronounced. Yet, we still do not know where voters obtain partisan information in … examines how voters search for information when they cannot rely on party labels. To test this relationship, I use a dynamic …

under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts … concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out – transparency negatively …

for information aggregation ensure that individuals behave as if they were engaging in informative voting over the level … of public good provision. It is shown that the use of information by an optimal provision rule is inversely related to …

In this article, I investigate how political information affects voting behavior. Specifically, I test (i) if more … politicians and voters, which provides an opportunity to investigate how information affects voters’ ability to match their …

aggregate information when the population is large, in any equilibrium. Here, we study the performance of large elections with … information is not aggregated. The main driving force is that, everything else equal, voters are more likely to be pivotal if the …