Strategic Coordination and the Law

Almendares, Nicholas; Landa, Dimitri

doi:10.1007/s10982-006-9005-z

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“…An important forerunner of our approach is the earlier scholarship highlighting the leader's role in providing solutions to coordination problems in politics and law (Calvert ; Almendares and Landa ). Focusing on the coordinating role of leaders, and in a setting closely related to ours, Dewan and Myatt (, , ) consider the context of party leadership in which leaders are akin to informative public signals, strategically choosing the clarity of the message they send to party members but lacking enforcement power.…”

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Coercive Leadership

Landa

Tyson

2017

American J Political Sci

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We develop a model of leadership in which an informed leader has some degree of coercive influence over her followers (agents). Agents benefit from coordination but face two distinct challenges: dispersed information and heterogeneous preferences. The leader's coercive power facilitates coordination by weakening the effect presented by both of these challenges through "binding" agents to a strategically chosen policy. The leader's policy choice becomes more informative to the agents about the leader's privately held information as her coercive capacity increases. By adjusting her policy choice in response to available private and public information, the coercive leader achieves her preferred average of agents' actions, and in so doing, neutralizes the possibly deleterious coordinating influence of public information. We develop implications of our analysis for understanding autocratic leadership in different political and organizational contexts.

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