preferences. Initial experimental sessions showed greater proposer power under Costs than Gains, contrary to what would be … greater proposer power under Costs resulted from concerns about being left out of the winning coalition, thereby wiping out … difference in proposer power over the last five bargaining rounds, consistent with standard expected utility maximizers. This …

with cheap talk. Communication results in substantially increased proposer power, close to the stationary subgame perfect …

legislation …

Do institutions constrain presidential power in Africa? Conventional wisdom holds that personalist rule grants African … authority. In this paper, I use original data on the exercise of presidential authority (issuance of subsidiary legislation) to …

the agenda setter's power by reducing his discretion to reward and punish legislators, and rules (such as sequential …

that legislative success is driven by parliamentary governments' superior agenda power or their control of legislative … less important than the government's survival. This support is stronger when the government has more agenda power and is …