Bøger i Michigan Studies in Political Analysis serien

Why do some members of the U.S. House of Representatives become legislative entrepreneurs?

Shows the range and power of experimental methods in political science.

In this controversial book, Keith Krehbiel investigates and casts doubt on the argument Congress is organised primarily to facilitate logrolling or "gains from trade" between legislators. The author puts forward an alternative "informational" theory that highlights institutional needs and individual incentives for acquiring policy expertise.

Explores the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include examples such as majority and unanimity rule, and focusing in particular on the extent to which any aggregation method is assured to yield a set of ""best"" alternatives.