We analyze a game where one agent (the “leader”) decides first how much free information he collects, and then how much of this information he transmits to another agent (the “decisionmaker”). Conditional on the information disclosed, the decision-maker undertakes an action that affects the payoff of both agents. We assume a conflict of preferences between the two agents and rely on previous re...

There is a growing trend among developed countries to increase the participation of youth in societal and institutional decision-making. The challenge is to move away from an illusion of participation (tokenism) to genuine youth influence. This article transfers knowledge of a relatively new theory to the fields of youth engagement and community development. We pose deliberative democracy as a ...

Data on neuropsychiatric and behavioral genetics have attracted legal interest, as attorneys explore their use in criminal and civil cases. These developments may assist judges and juries in making difficult judgments-but they bring substantial risk of misinterpretation and misuse.

It is unclear how effectively jurors perform their task of assessing witness credibility. Drawing on evidence from a mock jury study involving 863 deliberating across 64 juries, and building existing research, this paper explores juries’ reliance demeanour. While make use factors which the research literature suggests are often appropriate credibility markers, for example external consistency a...

Commonly cited causes of the crisis include the high number of lawyers in the United States, increasing litigiousness of society, juries which side with victims rather than uncaring big business, and the growing technological complexity of society (Huber 1987). Notably absent from such accounts are explanations relating to the management practices of insurers themselves. Why are there so many t...