On committees of experts

B Visser, OH Swank - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
A committee makes a decision on a project on behalf of “the public.” Members of the
committee agree on the a priori value of the project, and hold additional private information …

Game theory, information, and deliberative democracy

D Landa, A Meirowitz - American journal of political science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We contend that, with a suitably broad notion of rationality and a diverse set of motivations,
the game‐theoretic tradition is particularly well suited for generating insights about effects of …

Applying conflict resolution insights to the hyper‐polarized, society‐wide conflicts threatening liberal democracies

G Burgess, H Burgess… - Conflict Resolution …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Through this essay and its accompanying commentaries, we offer a focal point for a wide‐
ranging dialogue about how those with conflict‐related expertise might do more to contribute …

Deliberation as self-discovery and institutions for political speech

C Hafer, D Landa - Journal of theoretical Politics, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a game-theoretic model of the social dynamics of belief change in which the
(relevant) logically non-omniscient audience becomes convinced that the speakers' …

Cognition and strategy: a deliberation experiment

ES Dickson, C Hafer, D Landa - The Journal of Politics, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
A theory of deliberation must provide a plausible account both of individuals' choices to
speak or to listen and of how they reinterpret their own views in the aftermath of deliberation …

Who moderates the moderators? The effect of non-neutral moderators in deliberative decision making

P Spada, JR Vreeland - Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2013 - delibdemjournal.org
Ideal deliberative democracy seeks to employ unbiased moderators. Yet, a large literature in
the field of mediation suggests the elusiveness of perfect neutrality. Our study thus …

Ideological media bias

DF Stone - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2011 - Elsevier
I develop a model of the market for news in which consumers and reporters both
ideologically misinterpret information and have biased beliefs about the extent to which …

[图书][B] The epistemology of group disagreement

F Broncano-Berrocal, JA Carter - 2021 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group
disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement have mainly been concerned …

Ideology for the Future

F Izzo - American Political Science Review, 2023 - cambridge.org
Political parties sometimes adopt unpopular positions that condemn them to electoral defeat.
This phenomenon is usually ascribed to expressive motives—namely, parties' desire to …

Letting the good times roll: A theory of voter inference and experimental evidence

JW Patty, RA Weber - Public Choice, 2007 - Springer
This paper examines inference and attribution in a simple and ubiquitous strategic situation:
a voter is faced with discerning whether a leader worked on his or her behalf after observing …