Is There a Bias Toward Excess in U.S. Government Budgets or Deficits?
探讨美国多数代表民主制的政治制度是否系统性地导致公共支出或预算赤字过高，并分析是否应通过宪法修正来应对这些问题。
Do the political institutions of a majoritarian representative democracy, and in particular those of the United States, systematically produce either levels of public spending or budget deficits that are excessive? Should U.S. political institutions be altered by constitutional amendment to deal with these problems? I will start by examining the issue of public spending, and then turn to the question of budget deficits.