Readings for Week 2

Dynamic Consistency, Asymmetric Information, and Bargaining

1. The Value of Biased Information: A Rational Choice Model of Political Advice: Randall Calvert
Journal of Politics, Vol. 42, No. 2. (June, 1985), pp. 530-55.

2. Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutional Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England: Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast
The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4. (December, 1989), pp. 803-32.

3. The Strategy of Conflict: Thomas C. Schelling
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.

4. The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling, Commitment, and Negotiation in International Politics: James D. Morrow
In David Lake and Robert Powell, eds. Strategic Choice in International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 77-114