Information Aggregation in Polls

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Opinion Dynamics and Learning in Social Networks (2011, background): “Crawford and Sobel [25], and the literature that follows them, characterizes the amount of information that can be transmitted in such an interaction (see, e.g., [22, 34, 70]).”
Nonbinding Voting for Shareholder Proposals (2011, unknown): “This intuition is similar to the intuition behind the result of Morgan and Stocken (2008) that information is not well aggregated for su¢ ciently large polls when constituents have diverse ideologies.”