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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 'Approximately 5 hours'
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
  confirmation_1: '1'
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: kou@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Social Sciences and Public Policy'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Department of Political Science'
  headshot_optional_: '26331'
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  mentoring_philosophy: 'I view mentoring as creative work that keeps mentees’ curiosity alive and turns them from passive receptors to active learners. My primary goal in mentoring is to help mentees develop a systematic approach to analyzing their questions.  I always aim to let mentees acquire something more important: the passion for understanding politics, the ability to examine conventional wisdom, and the creativity to solve puzzles.'
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  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
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  overall_research_project_description: 'A critical feature of democratic processes is deliberation through representative voices. In the committee context, members often deliberate before voting. On the one hand, collective deliberation facilitates information aggregation and coordinates voting among committee members. In scenarios in which every committee member is sufficiently informed, deliberation may increase the likelihood that the committee collectively chooses the welfare-maximizing policy. On the other hand, collective deliberation affects the committee members’ willingness to be informed in the first place, following a logic of backward induction. Relative to scenarios in which there is no communication, the following hypotheses may hold: First, collective deliberation improves the committee’s likelihood of collectively choosing the welfare-maximizing policy when the average level of information expertise is sufficiently high but undermines this likelihood when most members are uninformed. Second, under unanimity voting where every member can effectively veto, or in scenarios in which there are veto players who can reject the choice of the majority, collective deliberation either undermines or has no effect on the likelihood of choosing the welfare-maximizing policy when at least one veto player is uninformed. However, when all veto players are informed, regardless of the average level of information expertise of non-veto players who cannot veto, collective deliberation improves the committee’s voting outcomes. '
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  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://coss.fsu.edu/polisci/faculty/kai-ou/'
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  position_availability_for_student_research: 'During Business Hours'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Kai Ou'
  project_keywords: 'Behavioral Political Economy, Game Theory, Laboratory Experiments'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Political Science Majors, Policy Majors, Business Majors, Economics Majors'
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  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'Literature review, data collection'
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  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |-
    Required: 
    Native in English communication, professional in English writing, knowledgeable about American Politics and Policy
    Recommended: 
    Knowledgeable about game theory and mathematical models, familiar with research designs 
  title_of_the_project: 'How Collective Deliberation Affects Democratic Outcomes'
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  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
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  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: Dr.
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  year: '2023'