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Author-Name: Javier Rivas
Author-Email: j.rivas@bath.ac.uk
Author-Person: pri116 
Author-Homepage: https://people.bath.ac.uk/fjrr20/
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics University of Bath
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-of-economics/
Author-Name: Carmelo Rodríguez Álvarez
Author-Email: carmelor@ccee.ucm.es
Author-Person: pro169
Author-Workplace-Name: Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II (Economía Cuantitativa). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Analisis Economico (ICAE) Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://www.ucm.es/fundamentos-analisis-economico2
Author-Workplace-Homepage: https://www.ucm.es/icae/
Title: Deliberation, Leadership and Information Aggregation
Abstract: We analyse committees of voters who take a decision between two options as a two- stage process. In a 
	discussion stage, voters share non-verifiable information about a private signal concerning what is the 
	best option. In a voting stage, votes are cast and one of the options is implemented. We introduce the 
	possibility of leadership whereby a certain voter, the leader, is more influential than the rest at the 
	discussion stage even though she is not better informed. We study information transmission and 
	characterize the effects of the leader on the deliberation process. We find, amongst others, that both 
	the quality of the decision taken by the committee and how truthful voters are at the discussion stage 
	depends non-monotonically on how influential the leader is. In particular, although a leader whose 
	influence is weak does not disrupt the decision process of the committee in any way, a very influential 
	leader is less disruptive than a moderately influential leader.
Classification-JEL: D71, D72, D82.
Keywords: Committees; Information Aggregation; Leadership; Voting.
Length: 34 pages 
Creation-Date: 2014  
Number: 2014-04 
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