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REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 165-191Publisher
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES LTD
DOI: 10.1111/0034-6527.00280
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Identical agents gather costly information, and then aggregate it through voting. Because information is a public good, information is underprovided relative to the social optimum. A good voting rule must give incentives to acquire information, as well as aggregate information efficiently. A voting rule that requires a large plurality (in the extreme, unanimity) to upset the status quo can be optimal only if the information available to each agent is sufficiently accurate. This result is independent of the preferences of voters and of the cost of information.
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