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The accuracy of group majority decisions in groups with added members

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  1. Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, Stony Brook, NY

    Scott L. Feld

  2. School of Social Sciences, University of California, 92717, Irvine, CA

    Bernard Grofman

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This grant was supported by NSF Grant #SE5 80-07915 to the second author. We are indebted to the staff of the Word Processing Center of the School of Social Sciences, UCI, for typing a number of drafts of this manuscript. We would like to thank Guillermo Owen for useful discussions with us on a closely related topic. Listing of authors' names in this paper is alphabetical. Each one contributed equally to the paper.

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Feld, S.L., Grofman, B. The accuracy of group majority decisions in groups with added members. Public Choice 42, 273–285 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00124946

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