Deciding Together
21 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2013 Last revised: 9 Oct 2013
Date Written: October 2013
Abstract
What protocol should participants in a collective decision making institution follow? Analysts often implicitly assume that each participant should decide as if she were deciding alone. This essay argues that, in many institutional contexts, the normatively appropriate protocol for deciding together differs from the protocol of deciding alone. The argument is developed through the analysis of two prominent collective decision institutions: the jury and the appellate court.
Keywords: collective decision making, judgment aggregation, appellate courts, juries, legislatures
JEL Classification: D70, K40
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