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Voting and elections play dual roles as social choice systems. On the one hand, they act as a preference aggregation system: they are used to choose between different alternatives when citizens do not agree on their preferred choices. On the other hand, they act as an information aggregation system: when individuals share the same preferences but each has only partial information on the state of the world, a voting system can be used to aggregate the decentralized information, increasing the probability of choosing the best alternative.
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Llavador, H., Oxoby, R. (2016). Experiments in Political Economy. In: Branas-Garza, P., Cabrales, A. (eds) Experimental Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538161_9
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