The puzzle of social pacts -- The institutional political economy of social pacts : a critical appraisal -- The political logic of social pacts -- Governments, voters, and social pacts in Western Eeurope -- The divergent trajectories of social pacts in the LMEs : Ireland and the UK -- Social...

This paper studies the impacts of party discipline on allocation of scarce federal resources among national districts. In particular, I model the distribution of government spending within a two-party legislature as an asymmetric contest game between congress members, in which the majority party...