transferable utility game, or a veto player in a simple game, in preventing efficient outcomes and we show that delay in bargaining … generically occurs. In an application to legislative bargaining with vote buying, if a veto player and a non-veto player coexist …, then a non-winning coalition forms as an intermediate bargaining step and the final winning coalition is not necessarily …

majority coalition can be stable, provided that reciprocity is sufficiently strong and widespread. In addition, a stable … minority coalition can exist, even with weak reciprocity preferences. This latter coalition is weakly larger than the maximum … stable coalition with standard preferences, but is characterized by mutually negative sentiments. …