Momen Ghazouani

The Political Architecture of Sustained Irrationality: How Institutional Design Enables Negative-Sum Decision-Making

This paper develops an integrative theoretical framework for understanding why political institutions systematically reward decisions that produce negative-sum outcomes, a phenomenon termed institutionally enabled irrationality. The framework identifies three interacting mechanis...

The Political Architecture of Sustained Irrationality: How Institutional Design Enables Negative-Sum Decision-Making

This paper develops an integrative theoretical framework for understanding why political institutions systematically reward decisions that produce negative-sum outcomes, a phenomenon termed institutionally enabled irrationality. The framework identifies three interacting mechanis...