Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations

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Journal: American Economic Review
Year: 2006
Volume: 96
Issue: 4
Pages: 1137-1158

Score contribution per author:

4.022 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Some international organizations are governed by unanimity rule, others by (simple or qualified) majority rules. Standard voting models, which assume that the decisions made by voting are perfectly enforceable, have a hard time explaining the observed variation in governance mode, and in particular the widespread occurrence of the unanimity system. We present a model whose main departure from

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repec:aea:aecrev:v:96:y:2006:i:4:p:1137-1158
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2
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