We study a legislative bargaining game in which failure to agree in a given round may result in a breakdown of …

One feature of legislative bargaining in naturally occurring settings is that the distribution of seats or voting … weights often does not accurately reflect bargaining power. Game-theoretic predictions about payoffs and coalition formation …

We report results from a laboratory experiment on strategic bargaining with indivisibilities studying the role of … have on bargaining power and identify how subjects' observed behavior systematically deviates from theoretical predictions …' heuristic which equates bargaining power with recognition probabilities to explain these findings …

recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the … equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from theory are: a) Subjects under-exploit their bargaining power by being more … asymmetries have on bargaining power, especially when the asymmetries relate to recognition probabilities. …

experiment compares one-shot and indefinite horizon versions of random-proposer majority bargaining (the Baron-Ferejohn game … and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …

experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is … higher if power is more imbalanced. Even though endogenous bargaining outcomes reflect the players' unequal fighting …