A carrot and stick approach to agenda-settingTools Dahm, Matthias and Glazer, Amihai (2015) A carrot and stick approach to agenda-setting. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116 . pp. 465-480. ISSN 0167-2681 Full text not available from this repository.AbstractThis paper models a legislature in which the same agenda setter serves for two periods, showing how he can exploit a legislature (completely) in the first period by promising future benefits to legislators who support him. In equilibrium, a large majority of legislators vote for the first-period proposal because they thereby maintain the chance of belonging to the minimum winning coalition in the future. Legislators may therefore approve policies by large majorities, or even unanimously, that benefit few, or even none, of them. The results are robust. But institutional arrangements (such as entitlements) can reduce the agenda setter's power by reducing his discretion to reward and punish legislators, and rules (such as sequential voting) can increase a legislator's ability to resist exploitation.
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