'thin' accountability of representative government. Recent decades have seen the growth of new, compensatory forms of …

In this paper, I structurally estimate a stochastic bargaining model of government formation in a multiparty … that the model fits well data on the duration of negotiations and government durations in postwar Italy. Also, I show that … changes in the proposer selection process would not affect either the duration of negotiations or government durations …

1. On the choice of regime -- 2. Models of government -- 3. The parameters -- 4. Autocratic, democratic, and optimal … government -- 5. Variations on the democratic model -- 6. Fiscal rules for a democracy -- 7. A constitutional approach to taxes …