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Vote Buying, Supermajorities, and Flooded Coalitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2000

Tim Groseclose
Affiliation:
Stanford University
James M. Snyder Jr.
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

In 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 winning vote buyer constructs a nonflooded coalition, that is, she does not bribe every member of her coalition. We conclude with a brief discussion of the substantive implications of Banks's proposition 1; we note that it provides additional support for our general claim that minimal winning coalitions should be rare in a vote-buying game.

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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2000

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REFERENCES

Groseclose, Tim. 1996. “An Examination of the Market for Favors and Votes in Congress.” Economic Inquiry 34 (April): 320–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Groseclose, Tim, and Snyder, James. 1996. “Buying Supermajorities.” American Political Science Review 90 (June): 303–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Banks, Jeffrey. 2000Buying Supermajorities in Finite Legislatures.” American Political Science Review 94 (September): 677–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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