-making powers of the sovereign through constitutional review. We create a data base of constitutional rules in 71 countries that …

We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model, the legislature designs a budget …

evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes, and sheds light to the determinants of lobbying in separation-of-powers …

electoral rules and forms of government for fiscal policy and rent extraction, even when non-random constitution selection is …

The monetary powers embedded in the U.S. Constitution were revolutionary and led to a watershed transformation in the …, and who could incorporate banks. How the debate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention over these powers evolved and led … the Founding Fathers to the specific powers adopted is presented and deconstructed. Why they took this path rather than …

A self-enforcing constitution creates a political process that provides an alternative to civil conflict for resolving … possible to design such a self-enforcing constitution. The paper is also concerned with discovering generic features of a self …-enforcing constitution. The analysis yields the following theoretical propositions: If and only if (1) none of the parties to a dispute …