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Maggi, Giovanni, and
Massimo Morelli. 2006. "Self-Enforcing Voting in International Organizations."
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96(4): 1137-1158.
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DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.4.1137
Abstract:Some international organizations are governed by unanimity rule, others by (simple
or qualified) majority rules. Standard voting models, which assume that the decisions
made by voting are perfectly enforceable, have a hard time explaining the
observed variation in governance mode, and in particular the widespread occurrence
of the unanimity system. We present a model whose main departure from
standard voting models is that the organization cannot rely on external enforcement
mechanisms: each country is sovereign and cannot be forced to comply with the
collective decision or, in other words, the voting system must be self-enforcing. The
model identifies conditions under which the organization adopts the unanimity rule,
and yields rich comparative-statics predictions on the determinants of the mode of
governance. (JEL D72, F53)
Authors:
Maggi, Giovanni
Morelli, Massimo
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