SUMMARY On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU).
We analyse vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom …

Many policy reforms involve gains for some voters at a cost borne by others, and voters may
be asymmetrically informed about who gains and loses. This paper shows that the …

We study the problem of aggregating private information in elections with two or more
alternatives for a large family of scoring rules. We introduce a feasibility condition, the linear …

We study the aggregation of dispersed information in elections in which turnout may depend
on the state. State-dependent turnout may arise from the actions of a biased and informed …

Many policies, such as trade and immigration, bear important consequences for both the
size and distribution of surplus. Oftentimes, people are asked to vote on these policies …

The modern Condorcet jury theorem states that under weak conditions, when voters have
common interests, elections will aggregate information when the population is large, in any …

We study a common-value voting model, in which private signal is typically informative but
may be unreliable. Reliability determines the precision and the meaning of voters' private …

We study a model of two-candidate electoral competition. In our model, each voter has
single-peaked preferences for the consequences of policies, but voters receive only partial …

Elections have long been understood as a mean to encourage candidates to act in voters'
interest, as well as a way to aggregate dispersed information. This paper juxtaposes these …

We consider a common-value voting in which the state of the nature is a pair of payoff-
relevant state and a variable that determines the precision and the meaning of voters' private …