Majoritarian Agenda Control

• In Event: Structural Features of Legislatures and Their Consequences

Brief Overview

We develop a formal model of legislators and voters, finding that when confronting a policy proposal that divides the voters, it is an equilibrium for the legislator to gatekeep even when doing so frustrates short-term policy aims.

Authors

• Robert Van Houweling, University of California-Berkeley

• David Robert Foster, London School of Economics and Political Science