American Politics Speaker Series: Social Preferences and the Filibuster

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You’re invited to join Christian Fong, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies. Registration is encouraged but not required. This event series will not be recorded. This event is open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served. Abstract When legislators do not get what they want in a legislative negotiation, they may become angry and engage in socially costly retaliation. We show how adhering to endogenously chosen rules can reduce this kind of retaliation by studying one particular rule in one particular institution: the US Senate's filibuster. After Democrats curtailed…

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