Add to ORKGInformation about the impact of policies is indispensable for political decision making. In politics, exchange of information in committees or the knowledge of experts from stakeholders are ways to aggregate enough evidence to make an informed decision. Research in economics and political science shows that truthful information transmission in committees or from a better informed sender to a decision maker is not always rational due to differences in preferences. However, individuals also differ in the way they process information and face institutional constraints when making decisions. In this dissertation I analyze how differences in information processing between individuals affect information aggregation and decision making in groups. ...
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The Condorcet Jury Theorem and subsequent literature establish the feasibility of information aggreg...
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Contemporary political information processing and the subsequent decision-making mechanisms are subo...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation is composed of three independent wor...
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This article shows that citizens consider policy positions for the formation of their political pref...
In this paper we analyse elections when voters underestimate the correlation between their informati...
Citizens minimize information costs by obtaining political information and guidance from other indiv...
For more than fifty years, political scientists have questioned whether citizens are sufficiently in...
Information supply is an important instrument through which interest groups can exert influence on p...
This article shows that citizens consider policy positions for the formation of their political pref...
These essays examine how economic agents strategically choose to produce, manipulate, or disclose in...
Decisions-makers often rely on information supplied by interested parties. In practice, some parties...
In representative democracy, voters elect candidates who strategically propose policies. In a common...
Elections have long been understood as a mean to encourage candidates to act in voters' interest as ...
The Condorcet Jury Theorem and subsequent literature establish the feasibility of information aggreg...
We study information transmission via polling. A policymaker polls constituents, who differ in their...
Contemporary political information processing and the subsequent decision-making mechanisms are subo...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation is composed of three independent wor...
We model two aspects of executives in parliamentary democracies: Decision-making authority is assign...
This article shows that citizens consider policy positions for the formation of their political pref...
In this paper we analyse elections when voters underestimate the correlation between their informati...
Citizens minimize information costs by obtaining political information and guidance from other indiv...
For more than fifty years, political scientists have questioned whether citizens are sufficiently in...
Information supply is an important instrument through which interest groups can exert influence on p...