Parchment, Equilibria, and Institutions

By John M. Carey. 2000

259 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Variation in Institutional Strength (2009, background): “In effect, parchment rules (Carey 2000) were equated with institutions, implying that the rules that were written down on paper either reflected or generated shared expectations about how others would behave.”
• What accountability pressures do MPs in Africa face and how do they respond? Evidence from Ghana* (2010, background): “Scholars like Cox (1997), Ordeshook (1992), Weingast (1997) and Vanberg (1998) have shown how institutions can be self-reinforcing while having multiple equilibria (cf. Carey 2000: 745–6).”