AGENDA CONTROL AND RECIPROCITY IN SEQUENTIAL VOTING DECISIONS.

We study how reciprocity affects the extent to which a chair can exploit her control over an agenda if a committee votes sequentially on a known series of binary proposals. We show in a parsimonious laboratory experiment that committee members form vote trading coalitions favoring early proposals no...

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Published in:Economic Inquiry Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 1813 - 1830
Main Authors: Fischbacher, Urs, Schudy, Simeon
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2020
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          Fischbacher, Urs
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          Department of Economics, University of Konstanz and Thurgau Institute of Economics, 78457, Constance, Germany
          Department of Economics, University of Munich, Geschwister‐Scholl‐Platz 1, D‐80539, Munich, Germany
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        Punishment
        Reciprocity (International law)
        Committees
        Voters
        Requests for proposals (Public contracts)
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