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Predicting Committee Behavior in Majority Rule Voting Experiments

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  • Stephen W. Salant
  • Eban Goodstein

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In past experiments, committees voting under majority rule have often failed to choose the Condorcet alternative (the core). Since this failure of theory might be due to flaws in experimental design, we developed a voting procedure in which the unique element in the core is also the unique outcome when a Nash equilibrium in undominated strategies for the whole game induces a Nash equilibrium in undominated strategies for every subgame. Nevertheless, our committees frequently choose other alternatives. To explain these results, we formulated a new theory that takes account of threshold effects and identifies a "selection set" predicted to contain the committee's choice. The revised theory performs well both in our experiments and in past experiments.

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  • Stephen W. Salant & Eban Goodstein, 1990. "Predicting Committee Behavior in Majority Rule Voting Experiments," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 21(2), pages 293-313, Summer.
    • Handle: RePEc:rje:randje:v:21:y:1990:i:summer:p:293-313
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    1. Jan Sauermann & André Kaiser, 2010. "Taking Others into Account: Self‐Interest and Fairness in Majority Decision Making," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 54(3), pages 667-685, July.
    2. Tovey, Craig A., 2010. "A finite exact algorithm for epsilon-core membership in two dimensions," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 60(3), pages 178-180, November.
    3. Mathieu Martin & Zéphirin Nganmeni, 2019. "The fi nagle point might not be within the Ɛ-core: a contradiction with Bräuninger's result," THEMA Working Papers 2019-03, THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
    4. Craig A Tovey, 2011. "The finagle point and the epsilon-core: A comment on Bräuninger’s proof," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 23(1), pages 135-139, January.
    5. Tovey, Craig A., 2010. "The instability of instability of centered distributions," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 59(1), pages 53-73, January.
    6. Grelak, Eric & Koford, Kenneth, 1997. "A re-examination of the Fiorina-Plott and Eavey voting experiments: How much do cardinal payoffs influence outcomes?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 571-589, April.
    7. Cheryl L. Eavey, 1991. "Patterns of Distribution in Spatial Games," Rationality and Society, , vol. 3(4), pages 450-474, October.
    8. Meszerics, Tamás, 1997. "Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés [Strategic behaviour and committee decison]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(7), pages 687-697.
    9. Thomas Bräuninger, 2007. "Stability in Spatial Voting Games with Restricted Preference Maximizing," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 19(2), pages 173-191, April.
    10. Mathieu Martin & Zéphirin Nganmeni & Ashley Piggins & Élise F. Tchouante, 2022. "Pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in the spatial model with valence: existence and characterization," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 190(3), pages 301-316, March.

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