Timothy J. Feddersen

His work with Wolfgang Pesendorfer extends 1785 Condorcet argument for elections as a means of aggregating information and making better collective decisions to account for voter's incentives to misrepresent their information. They showed that: strategic voting enhances information aggregation; information asymmetries produce a strategic rationale for abstention; and unanimity rule is uniquely error prone. Together with Alvaro Sandroni he showed that the insights from the strategic voting literature above extend to models with ethically motivated agents. He also did important work on legislative institutions and the impact of deliberation in committees.