Leadership ability and agenda choice

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hwang, Ilwoo; Krasa, Stefan
• 署名单位: Seoul National University (SNU); University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 刊物名称: GAMES AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0899-8256
• DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2023.07.016
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 179-192
• 关键词: Agenda choice; leadership; bargaining; learning

摘要

Should a political leader first focus on smaller policy goals or start with the most ambitious policy agenda? We model a political leader who chooses the policy agenda and proposes policies to a responder. The leader has a high or low ability to persuade the responder to agree to a proposal, and both parties are symmetrically uninformed about this ability. If the belief about the leader's ability is low, then it is optimal to start with the ambitious policy, but the reverse is true if the belief is high. Addressing both policies together is dominated by a sequential approach.& COPY; 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.