"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal … (majority voting), the counterproposal being the default outcome in case of cyclical collective preferences. We analyze the … in the first stage, without impacting the final outcome. Pendular Voting can engineer outcomes closer to the median voter …

analyzed the voting behavior of juries (consisting of music industry professionals) and audiences to identify voting biases … because of cultural and political influences on the voting bodies. Due to limited data availability, this literature suffered … disentangle the voting behavior of the juries and track the voting behavior of individual jury members. Based upon a rich dataset …

In a model of simultaneous voting, Feddersen and Pesendorfer (1998) consider the possibility that jurors vote … that those unintuitive predictions also hold with sequential voting. In this paper, we report paired experiments with … sequential and simultaneous voting under unanimity and majority rule. Observed behavior varies significantly depending on whether …

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …