Changes in malpractice law remain an important goal of health care reform. Many state and federal legislators continue to call for measures that would limit the ability of injured patients to sue. There is also growing interest in alternatives to fault-based litigation. As legislators consider no-fault proposals, they can look to Florida's experience with the Neurological Injury Compensation As...

Despite the centrality of the median voter prediction in political economy models, overwhelming empirical evidence shows that legislators regularly take positions that diverge significantly from the preferences of the median voter in their districts. However, all these empirical studies to date lack the necessary data to directly measure the preferences of the median voter. We utilize a unique ...

In this paper we formalize the specification of games in the trias politica using Rao and Georgeff’s specification language BDICTL*. In particular, we generalize Rao and Georgeff’s specification of single agent decision trees to multiagent games, for which we introduce observations and recursive modelling, in this setting we formalize obligations, and we characterize four kinds of agents, calle...

We argue that legislators’ trade attitudes reflect constituents’ economic interests. Concretely, we expect legislators from districts are highly competitive in international should be more supportive of agreements than noncompetitive districts. The strength this relationship lower multimember and for right-wing legislators. Data based on surveys with 3,576 16 Latin American countries 48 legisla...

We study the effect of electoral incentives on the allocation of public services across legislative districts. We develop a model in which elections encourage individual legislators to cater to parochial interests and thus aggravate the common pool problem. Using unique data from seven US states, we study how the amount of funding that a legislator channels to his district changes when he faces...

This paper examines the influences on voting by members of the House of Representatives on the Carter Administration’s welfare reform legislation. The analysis finds some support for the hypothesis that voting by national legislators responded to the potential mobility of welfare recipients from low to high benefit states. Defining the public interest as promoting economic growth and the specia...

The purpose of this study was to understand if the advocacy efforts superintendents had any effect during a recent policy creation. sought also influences state legislators consider in Kansas determining decisions they make when voting. Participants included seven school and eight legislators, all-active their roles 2015 Legislative session. In all, fifteen individual interviews were conducted,...

Abstract Same-sex marriage has risen to the top of political agendas across Latin America, but it is still illegal in many countries. Public support about issue varies greatly, and roles courts, presidents, legislatures have also differed. This article focuses on legislators because they are charged with representing public converting demands into policy. Although now voted issue, literature no...