Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining

by Jack Knight and Melissa Schwartzberg

Two leading scholars of democracy make the case for political bargaining and define its proper limits.

Bargains--grand and prosaic--are a central fact of political life. The distribution of bargaining power affects the design of constitutions, the construction of party coalitions, legislative outcomes, judicial opinions, and much more. But can political bargaining be justified in theory? If it inevitably involves asymmetric power,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674279328
• ISBN13: 9780674279322
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages