 Counting on my vote not counting: Expressive voting in committeesBoris Ginzburg, Jose-Alberto Guerra and Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu () Journal of Public Economics, 2022, vol. 205, issue C Abstract: How do voting institutions affect incentives of committees to vote expressively? We model a committee that chooses whether to approve a proposal that some members may consider ethical. Members who vote for the proposal receive expressive utility, and all members pay a cost if the proposal is accepted. Committee members may have different depths of reasoning. Under certain sufficient conditions, the model predicts that features that reduce the probability of a member being pivotal – namely, larger committee size, or a more restrictive voting rule – raise the share of votes in favour of the proposal. A laboratory experiment with a charitable donation framing presents evidence in line with these results. Our structural estimation recovers the distributions of altruistic and expressive preferences, as well as of depth of reasoning, across individuals. Keywords: Expressive voting; Committees; Pivotality; Laboratory experiment; Level-k; Structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pubeco:v:205:y:2022:i:c:s0047272721001912 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104555 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Public Economics is currently edited by R. Boadway and J. Poterba More articles in Journal of Public Economics from Elsevier |
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