How war affects elite incentives
PSCI 2227: War and State Development
Prof. Brenton Kenkel
Vanderbilt University
February 25, 2026
FYI
In this class, we covered Kenkel and Paine’s IO article “A Theory of External Wars and European Parliaments.”
Instead of giving a slide presentation, I walked through a sketch of our theoretical model — the next slide contains the final product of that sketch.
