How to Fix the Filibuster: Insights from the Filibuster Show-Down Model

• In Event: Is Congress Broken? The Durability of Polarization & the Importance of Institutions

Brief Overview

The filibuster show down model shows that a costly supermajoritarian requirement can be welfare improving relative to majority rule, but this depends upon an appropriate arrangement of costs associated with show downs.

Author

• Jesse T. Richman, Old Dominion University