Abstrakt
This article surveys the theoretical literature on legislative bargaining with endogenous status-quo. These are the legislative bargaining situations in which in each period a new policy is decided and the policy implemented in the event of no agreement is endogenously determined by the outcome of bargaining in the previous period.
After describing a general framework, we discus bargaining over redistributive policies, bargaining over spatial policies, existence issues, eciency issues and open questions.