Legislative Organization
以美国国会为例，探讨立法组织的政治经济学研究，分析少数派联盟如何通过交易实现分配效率，以及立法机构如何通过专业化获取信息效率，并指出自我组织带来的承诺难题。
With an emphasis on the U.S. Congress, this essay addresses political economy approaches to the study of legislative organization. Simple models provide a foundation for more sophisticated studies of one of two problems: how coalitions of intense minorities pass policies that reflect gains from trade (efficiency in distributive policies) and how the legislature obtains gains from specialization (efficiency in information acquisition and dissemination). The recurring impediment to solutions to these problems is that legislatures are self-organizing and, therefore, have difficulty in committing to potentially effective institutional solutions.