-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 …

that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help ….e., when the executive and judicial branches are separate. Our results shed light on the evolution of separation of powers in …

Regime changes toward autocracy typically reshape the judicial framework, effectively eroding the separation of powers … contrasts with the democratic norms upheld by major Western nations: the separation of powers, judicial autonomy, and the …

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 …

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