We propose a mechanism linking legislative gridlock to voters' support for candidates who
hold extreme policy positions. Moderate voters rationally discount extreme policy proposals …

We analyze the effects of veto institutions in a dynamic model where control of the legislative
and executive branches fluctuates between two parties. In our setting, there are universal …

In many settings, individuals face a tradeoff between cooperating to expand a collective
good (a" collective pie") or competing to expand the share they own of that good. We study …

A principal and an agent face symmetric uncertainty about the value of two correlated
projects for the agent. The principal chooses which project values to publicly discover and …

Legislative hostage-taking–whereby the minority party refuses to pass a bipartisan policy
unless another divisive or contentious policy also passes–has become a frequent …

Political parties have grown increasingly polarized in recent decades. Furthermore, this
polarization has spilled over into common-values issues that we would not expect to be …

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Barcelona 2023 Francesco Barilari (TCD) Shooting Political Polarization EEA-ESEM 2023 1 …