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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004
The size of a supermajority required to change an existing contract varies widely in different settings. This paper analyzes the optimal supermajority requirement, determined by multilateral bargaining behind the veil of ignorance. The optimum is determined by a tradeoff between reducing hold-up power of small groups and reducing expropriation of ...
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The size of a supermajority required to change an existing contract varies widely in different settings. This paper analyzes the optimal supermajority requirement, determined by multilateral bargaining behind the veil of ignorance. The optimum is determined by a tradeoff between reducing hold-up power of small groups and reducing expropriation of ...
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Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions
American Political Science Review, 2000In a recent paper, Banks (2000), adopting the framework of our model (Groseclose and Snyder 1996), derives several new and noteworthy results. In addition, he provides a counterexample to our proposition 4. Here we explain the error in our proposition but note that we can correct it easily if we invoke an additional assumption: In equilibrium the ...
Tim Groseclose, James M. Snyder
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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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2004
The evidence is clear that the private sector can do just about anything more efficiently than the government. Municipal solid waste disposal costs 61% to 71% more when done by government.1 Another study found that contracting out waste collection to the private sector saved between 22% and 30%.2 It takes 68% more federal government employees to remove
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The evidence is clear that the private sector can do just about anything more efficiently than the government. Municipal solid waste disposal costs 61% to 71% more when done by government.1 Another study found that contracting out waste collection to the private sector saved between 22% and 30%.2 It takes 68% more federal government employees to remove
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Exploring Putin's Post-Crimean Supermajority
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Vladimir Putin's skyrocketing approval ratings originate from current political developments involving the annexation of Crimea, the para-military conflict in South-Eastern Ukraine, and the rapid elevation of political tensions between Russia and the West.
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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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Supermajority Politics: Equilibrium Range, Diversity, and Compromise
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019Do legislative voting rules affect the diversity of policies observed across structurally similar political economies, and if so, to what extent? To what degree do these voting rules affect legislative compromise and the stability of the social optimum?
Aseem Mahajan +2 more
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The arbitrariness of supermajority rules
Social Science Information, 2010There may be good general grounds for the adoption of supermajoritarian thresholds, but no such general arguments can justify the selection of a specific threshold. Although the benefits of supermajority rules, especially in the context of constitutional-amendment procedures, may outweigh the costs of their ex ante indeterminacy, the technically ...
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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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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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