Research by Weingast, Barry -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries of research by Weingast, Barry

De Figueiredo and Weingast: The rationality of fear
Diaz-Cayeros, Magaloni, and Weingast: Tragic brilliance
Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast: Coordination, commitment, and enforcement
McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast: Administrative procedures as instruments of political control
McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast: Structure and process, politics and policy
Milgrom, North, and Weingast: The role of institutions in the revival of trade
Weingast and Marshall: The industrial organization of Congress
Weingast and Moran: Bureaucratic discretion or Congressional control
Weingast: The economic role of political institutions

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This portion of my website (/notes/) is the site formerly known as wikisum.com. Many years ago, my friends in graduate school and I would routinely share our reading notes with one another. We all read each article, but we crowdsourced the responsibility of summarizing our readings. When we were preparing for our comprehensive exams, I collected many of these summaries from peers and imported them into a wiki (wikisummary, or wikisum), hoping it would take off and attract hordes of graduate students and political scientists interested in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge base of all political science has to offer. It turns out I was too optimistic. Hundreds of people read the summaries, but almost nobody contributed new ones. Eventually, I quit renewing the wikisum domain and converted the contents into this static website. The summaries grow more dated each year, but since they might still have some use, they're still here—even if the name "wikisum" has become a bit of a misnomer. Enjoy.