Credible Commitment -- Adam Brown, BYU Political Science

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Summaries tagged Credible Commitment

Barro and Gordon: Rules, discretion, and reputation in a model of monetary policy
Cowhey: Domestic institutions and the credibility of international commitments
Drazen: Political economy in macroeconomics
Drazen: The political business cycle after 25 years
Fearon: Rationalist explanations for war
Greif, Milgrom, and Weingast: Coordination, commitment, and enforcement
Hibbs: Political parties and macroeconomic policy
Lake and Rothchild: Containing fear
Lake and Rothchild: Territorial decentralization and civil war settlements
Martin: Democratic commitments
Milgrom, North, and Weingast: The role of institutions in the revival of trade
Milner: Interests, institutions, and information
Morrow: The strategic setting of choices
Nordhaus: The political business cycle
Root: Tying the King's hands
Walt: The origins of alliances
Walter: The critical barrier to civil war settlement
Weingast and Marshall: The industrial organization of Congress
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.