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The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance

1981 • 3,758 citations

The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Discounting or with Incomplete Information

1986 • 2,378 citations

Premiums for High Quality Products as Returns to Reputations

1983 • 2,341 citations

Reputation Acquisition in Debt Markets

1989 • 1,628 citations

The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets

1988 • 1,541 citations

Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment

1977 • 1,279 citations

Legislators and Interest Groups: How Unorganized Interests Get Represented

1986 • 728 citations

A theory of self-enforcing agreements

1987 • 649 citations

The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives

1968 • 569 citations

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2004 • 551 citations

The congressional-bureaucratic system: a principal agent perspective (with applications to the SEC)

1984 • 494 citations

Public Choice II: A Revised Edition of Public Choice

1989 • 279 citations

The organization of interests

1980 • 261 citations

The myth of democratic failure

1995 • 207 citations

An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of PAC Contributions

1994 • 181 citations

The Giant Jigsaw Puzzle: Democratic Committee Assignments in the Modern House, by Kenneth A. Shepsle

1979 • 177 citations

The Origins of the Standing Committees and the Development of the Modern House

1970 • 136 citations

Legislative Majorities as Nonsalvageable Assets

1988 • 24 citations