Dragu, Tiberiu; Fan, Xiaochen; Kuklinski, James - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9 (2014) 1, pp. 45-86
Essential to the Madisonian conception of checks and balances is the division of policy-making authority among multiple actors such that each can veto proposed changes in policy. We use a mechanism design approach to analyze checks and balances institutions. We show that checks and balances...