representation (PR), was the desire of the Conservative and Liberal parties to come up with a way of credibly dividing power to avoid … problem with majoritarian electoral institutions was that they did not allocate power in a way which matched the support of … with the rising support for socialism and the desire to divide power more broadly. Our findings shed new light on the …

where the survival of the system is at stake; that is, at its core. Here, power becomes salient. This helps explain why …

, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i … communication and substantial employee discretion. (iii) Broad task assignments and intensive horizontal communication are … complementary. Hence, lower communication costs often result in less specialization. …

communication flows serve as important channels of diffusion. The analysis is based on examining the productivity effects of R …

Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar-refining cartel show how communication helps firms collude, and so …

The paper presents a positive model of communication in federal legislatures to study the incentives of members to … consideration, communication between delegates generally suffers from a bias that make truthful revelation difficult and sometimes …-)centralization, which revisits Oates' decentralization theorem in a world of incomplete information and strategic communication. Empirical …

We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …