Bargaining in Legislatures: An Experimental Investigation of Open versus Closed Amendment Rules
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چکیده
We investigate the differential effects of open versus closed amendment rules within the framework of a distributive model of legislative bargaining. The data show that there are longer delays in distributing beneÞts and a more egalitarian distribution of beneÞts under the open amendment rule, the proposer gets a larger share of the beneÞts than coalition members under both rules, and play converges towards minimal winning coalitions under the closed amendment rule. However, there are important quantitative differences between the theoretical model underlying the experiment (Baron and Ferejohn 1989) and data as the frequency of minimal winning coalitions is much greater under the closed rule (the theory predicts minimal winning coalitions under both rules for our parameter values) and the distribution of beneÞts between coalition members is much more egalitarian than predicted. The latter are consistent with Þndings from shrinking pie bilateral bargaining game experiments in economics, which we relate our results to.
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