(1) Department of Political Science, UCLA, 4289 Bunche Hall, Box 951472, 90095-1472 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract:
Conventional wisdom has it that the absolute (purely negative) veto is ineffective when overridable by a simple majority. That is flatly false. The examples that prove this surprising fact are themselves surprisingly ordinary yet oddly resistant to direct observation. They reveal virtues of a neglected institutional design.JEL classification: D71, D72