Analysis of Democratic Institutions: Structure, Conduct and Performance
从经济学视角分析民主制度，通过博弈模型研究选举制度和权力分配如何影响政治家的行为和政府绩效，帮助理解政治结构对激励的作用。
This paper develops an economic perspective on political theory as a guide to some problems and directions of current research. The electoral system and the allocation of powers to elected offices together define the game that politicians play. So democratic structures should be compared and evaluated by analyzing game models to see how equilibrium behavior of political agents may depend on the structure of the political system. The goal of such research is to predict how the conduct of politicians and the performance of government may depend on the incentives created by the structure of the political system.