Buying Supermajorities in Finite Legislatures

Jeffrey Banks

American Political Science Review, 2000, vol. 94, issue 3, 677-681

Abstract: I analyze the finite-voter version of the Groseclose and Snyder vote-buying model. I identify how the optimal coalition size varies with the underlying preference parameters; derive necessary and sufficient conditions for minimal majority and universal coalitions to form; and show that the necessary condition for minimal majorities found in Groseclose and Snyder is incorrect.

Date: 2000
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