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Buying supermajorities in a stochastic environment
Public Choice, 2009This paper considers a model in which two opposing lobbyists compete for the votes of legislators, but the precise preferences of the legislators are not known. I show that, in contrast to the normally predicted effect of uncertainty on the formation of supermajorities, in the presence of competing lobbyists, increased risk that members of a lobbyist’s
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Designing the Tax Supermajority Requirement
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020States are rekindling the trend of broad constitutional amendments that require supermajority approval to create or increase taxes. This trend may inadvertently harm states’ already precarious fiscal footing, particularly with several new imminent expenditure demands.
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Supermajorities: A Proposal for the Judiciary Evaluated
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020In a 1984 article in the Journal of Legal Studies, Gordon Tullock and I.J. Good proposed a reform to the American judiciary that would have raised the threshold number of appellate jurists needed for a decision to become binding on lower courts, increased the number of cases that the Supreme Court hears, and prolonged the wait time for “good,” highly ...
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The Condorcet Case for Supermajority Rules
Supreme Court Economic Review, 2008The Condorcet Jury Theorem has been deployed to argue that majority rule is the best voting rule for popular decisionmaking, including for legislatures. Yet the United States Constitution employs supermajority rules of various kinds as the primary decisionmaking rule.
John O. McGinnis, Michael Rappaport
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The Past and Future of the Supermajority Senate
The Forum, 2011The distinguishing feature of the modern U.S. Senate is the ability of any senator to block legislation and nominations, forcing the rest of the chamber to limit debate using a slow process that requires a 60-vote supermajority. This article explains the development of this new and powerful veto in the legislative process, its use as a minority party ...
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The Past, Present, and Future of Legislation with Supermajority
Ius GentiumBoldizsár Artur Szentgáli-Tóth
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Revisiting the effect of supermajority requirements on fiscal outcomes
Southern Economic Journal, 2020AbstractI use matching methods on a panel of U.S. states over the period 1960–2008 to test whether the adoption of a supermajority requirement impacts state‐level expenditures and tax revenue. While two‐way fixed effects (TWFE) models show that general expenditures, welfare expenditures, and total tax revenue per capita are lower following adoption of ...
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Revisiting the effect of supermajority requirements on fiscal outcomes
Southern Economic Journal, 2022William B Hankins
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