Names: Gross, Matthias, 1969–editor.| McGoey, Linsey, editor. Title: Routledge international
handbook of ignorance studies/edited by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey. Description …

This article reviews recent developments in the theory of committee decision‐making. A
committee consists of self‐interested members who make a public decision by aggregating …

Does providing information improve citizens' perception of government transparency? Does
all information matter the same for shaping perceptions about the government? This article …

This paper tests the rational ignorance hypothesis by Downs (1957). This theory predicts
that people do not acquire costly information to educate their votes. We provide new …

This article analyzes participation and information aggregation in a common-value election
with continuous private signals. In equilibrium, some citizens ignore their private information …

Despite the right of disabled people to full social and economic inclusion, many face multiple
day-to-day and systemic challenges. These include but are not limited to additional …

This paper analyzes the optimal size of a deliberating committee where (i) there is no conflict
of interest among individuals and (ii) information acquisition is costly. The committee …

We study unanimous decision making under incomplete information. We argue that
unanimous decision rules are not all equivalent. We show that majority rules with veto power …

The Condorcet jury model with costless but informative signals about the true state of the
world predicts that the efficiency of group decision-making increases unambiguously with …

We study theoretically and experimentally committee decision making with common
interests. Committee members do not know which of two alternatives is optimal, but each …