TASOS KALANDRAKIS - RESEARCH

Last updated, 10/28/08  

Following are links to selected working papers and publications.

    Working Papers

A Theory of Minority and Majority Governments.

Dynamic Legislative Policy Making (with John Duggan).

Radical Moderation: Recapturing Power in Two-Party Parliamentary Systems (with Arthur Spirling).

Revisiting the Role of Structure on the Induction of Equilibrium (under revision).

Electoral and Policy Dynamics in US Politics (with John Duggan) (in progress).

    Published or Forthcoming Papers (access to links may be restricted)

“Rationalizable Voting,” Theoretical Economics, accepted subject to revisions.

“Minimum Winning Coalitions and Endogenous Status-Quo,” International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming.

“A Newton Collocation Method for Solving Dynamic Bargaining Games,” (with John Duggan), Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming.

“A Reputational Theory of Two Party Competition,” Quarterly Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

“Robust Rational Turnout,” Economic Theory, 41(2): 317-343, 2009.

“Dynamics of the Presidential veto: A computational analysis,” (with John Duggan and Vikram Manjunath) Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 48: 1570-1589, 2008.

“On Participation Games with Complete Information,” International Journal of Game Theory, 35(3): 337-352, 2007.

“Regularity of Pure Strategy Equilibrium Points in a Class of Bargaining Games,”  Economic Theory, 28(2): 309-29, 2006.

“Proposal Rights and Political Power,”  American Journal of Political Science, 50(2):441-448 , 2006.

“Equilibria in Sequential Bargaining Games as Solutions to Systems of Equations,” Economics Letters, 84(3): 407-11, 2004.

“A Three-Player Dynamic Majoritarian Bargaining Game,” Journal of Economic Theory, 116(2): 294-322, 2004.

“Bicameral Winning Coalitions and Equilibrium Federal Legislatures,” Legislative Studies Quarterly, XXIX: 49-79, 2004.

“Legislative Procedures in the EU: An Empirical Analysis,” (with George Tsebelis, Chris Jensen, and Amy Kreppel), British Journal of Political Science, 31(4): 573-99, 2001.

“European Parliament and Environmental Legislation: The Case of Chemicals,” (with George Tsebelis) European Journal of Political Research 36(1): 119-154, 1999.