Endogenous Competence and a Limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem
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- Bryan C. McCannon & Paul Walker, 2016. "Endogenous competence and a limit to the Condorcet Jury Theorem," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 169(1), pages 1-18, October.
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Keywords
committee decision making; Condorcet Jury Theorem; endogenous competence; group size; majority voting; supermajority voting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2016-06-25 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-MIC-2016-06-25 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-NET-2016-06-25 (Network Economics)
- NEP-POL-2016-06-25 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2016-06-25 (Public Finance)
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