The Condorcet Jury Theorem and subsequent literature establish the feasibility of information aggregation in a common-value environment with exogenous policy options: large electorate imperfectly informed voters almost always selects correct option. Rather than directly voting for policies, citizens modern representative democracies elect candidates who make strategic commitments. We show that ...

Because trial juries deliberate in secrecy, legal debates about jury functioning have relied heavily on anecdote and speculation. In recent years, investigators have begun to challenge many common assumptions about jury behavior. An important tool in this effort has been the mock jury experiment, in which research participants are randomly assigned to alternative trial conditions and asked to r...

Previous research has suggested that the racial composition of a jury plays a role in the likelihood of conviction of certain defendants. In general, it has been supported that White jury members are more likely to vote to convict Black defendants, while Black jury members are more likely to vote to acquit Black defendants. Prior research has suffered from flaws that could possibly affect these...

Among methods of controlling hypercholesterolemia and hyperlipidemia is the direct stimulation of hepatic low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors. Two novel lactone compounds, CJ-12,950 and CJ-13,357, containing and unusual oxime moiety, were isolated from a zygomycete Mortierella verticillata. These lactones are potent inducers of the LDL receptor gene in vitro, that enhanced LDL receptor expr...

The first synthesis of the spiroacetal-containing anti-Helicobacter pylori agents ent-CJ-12,954 and ent-CJ-13,014 is reported based on the union of a heterocycle-activated spiroacetal-containing sulfone fragment with a phthalide-containing aldehyde fragment; comparison of the 1H and 13C NMR data, optical rotations and HPLC retention times of the synthetic compounds (3S,2"S,5"S,7"S)-(1a) and (3S...

The phrase “a jury of one’s peers” brings to mind an image of a jury that perfectly mirrors its community in terms of demographic and attitudinal characteristics. In an ideal world, a perfectly representative jury would be best able to fulfill its role as the conscience of the community in judicial decision-making. As a practical matter, however, the legal requirements governing the composition...

To examine the influence of different actors' fictitious statements about research and deployment stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), we conducted an online survey in Germany. Participants assess researchers a citizens' jury to be more credible than politicians. Credibility has strong positive effect on SAI acceptance both pro-SAI contra-SAI conditions. Reading statement against SAI-deployme...