TY - JOUR
T1 - Voting Agendas and Preferences on Trees
T2 - Theory and Practice
AU - Kleiner, Andreas
AU - Moldovanu, Benny
N1 - Funding Information:
* Kleiner: Department of Economics, Arizona State University (email: andreas.kleiner@asu.edu); Moldovanu: Department of Economics, University of Bonn (email: mold@uni-bonn.de). Leeat Yariv was coeditor for this article. This paper was previously circulated under the title “Abortions, Brexit and Trees.” We wish to thank Mirjam Beyer, Tim Bock, and Katharina Schneider for research assistance. Moldovanu acknowledges financial support from the German Science Foundation via the Hausdorff Center, Econtribute Cluster of Excellence and CRC TR-224.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We study how parliaments and committees select one out of several alternatives when options cannot be ordered along a “left-right” axis. Which voting agendas are used in practice, and how should they be designed? We assume that preferences are single peaked on a tree and study convex agendas where, at each stage in the voting process, the tree of remaining alternatives is divided into two subtrees that are subjected to a Yes-No vote. We show that strategic voting coincides with sincere, unsophisticated voting. Based on inference results and revealed preference arguments, we illustrate the empirical implications for two case studies.
AB - We study how parliaments and committees select one out of several alternatives when options cannot be ordered along a “left-right” axis. Which voting agendas are used in practice, and how should they be designed? We assume that preferences are single peaked on a tree and study convex agendas where, at each stage in the voting process, the tree of remaining alternatives is divided into two subtrees that are subjected to a Yes-No vote. We show that strategic voting coincides with sincere, unsophisticated voting. Based on inference results and revealed preference arguments, we illustrate the empirical implications for two case studies.
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U2 - 10.1257/mic.20200147
DO - 10.1257/mic.20200147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138386396
SN - 1945-7669
VL - 14
SP - 583
EP - 615
JO - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
JF - American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
IS - 4
ER -