Agenda Networks and Farsightedly Stable Agenda Formation

Sami Dakhlia () and Frank H. Page
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Frank H. Page: University of Alabama

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Abstract: We model the agenda formation process as a network. In an agenda network, nodes represent agendas while arcs represent coalition preferences over agendas and coalitional moves from one agenda to another. We show that all agenda networks have agenda nodes which are farsightedly consistent. These nodes represent agendas which are likely to emerge and persist if agents behave farsightedly in forming agendas. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by computing the farsightedly consistent agendas for three examples of agenda networks.

Keywords: directed networks; farsighted stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-gth and nep-net
Date: 2005-05-12
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