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We conduct experiments to investigate the effects of different majority requirements on bargaining outcomes in small … (number of bargaining rounds needed to reach agreement) and measures of "fairness" (inclusiveness of coalitions, equality of …
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We study a legislative bargaining game in which failure to agree in a given round may result in a breakdown of …
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Despite the Founding Fathers' careful planning, the reason for the public's lack of confidence in Congress is that elections, like the institutional checks and balances of federalism and separation of powers, are necessary but not sufficient to ensure that Congress acts in the best interests of...
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We study a legislative bargaining game in which failure to agree in a given round may result in a breakdown of …
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We study an infinite-horizon multilateral bargaining game in which the status quo policy, players' recognition … probabilities, and their voting weights are endogenously determined by the previous bargaining outcome. With perfectly farsighted … the initial bargaining state. If the players' initial shares are relatively equal, they successfully prevent tyranny, but …
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group decision methods, one based on automatic bargaining over lotteries, the other on conditional commitments to approve …
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We present a model of bargaining in which a committee searches over the policy space, successively amending the default … by voting over proposals. Bargaining ends when proposers are unable or unwilling to amend the existing default, which is … in semi-Markovian equilibria form the largest consistent set. -- bargaining ; evolving default ; stable set …
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This paper studies stationary Markov perfect equilibria in multidimensional models of dynamic bargaining, in which the … bargaining games. …
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We experimentally investigate the effects of group size on behavior and outcomes in a multilateral bargaining game …. Using a Baron–Ferejohn protocol, our main interest is in the extent of costly delay (number of bargaining rounds needed to …
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This chapter gives a flavour of recent theoretical work on coalition formation and political parties. I survey recent work on both pre-election coalition formation and post election coalition (or government) formation. A number of alternative rationales for the formation of parties are compared...
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