Political and Institutional Dynamics

Pivotal Politicians

About this lecture

In this video, Professor Vanden Bergh will build from the basic Positive Political Theory model developed in the first video. He will show you how changing Institutional rules affects the so called Pivotal Politician. In this video the term Politician is used as a general term referring to lawmakers such as regulators, justices and/or elected officials.

References

Krehbiel, Keith (1998). Pivotal Politicians. A Theory of US Law Making. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Black, Duncan (1948). "On the Rationale of Group Decision-making". Journal of Political Economy. 56: 23–34

Part of the IOE ecosystem

Governance and Regulation Chair, Université Paris-Dauphine – PSL Institutional & Organizational Economics Academy Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics