The Unanimity Rule under a Two-Agent Fixed Sequential Order Voting

This paper studies how the cost of delay and voting order affect agents’ decisions in a unanimity mechanism. Specifically, we consider two-voter conclaves with commonly known preferences over two alternatives, delay, following novelty: each voter has subjective deadline—a moment time when he/she prefers immediate agreement on any alternative, rather than future his/her most-preferred alternative. Our key finding shows that patience is not necessarily main attribute strategic advantage. When first same at every stage, this will obtain preferred even if least patient one. However, movement advantage disappears agents alternate as stage: case, most always wins.