Assessing Power in Spatial Bargaining: When Is There Advantage to Being Status-Quo Advantaged?

Bargaining at various levels has taken on a greater role in our understanding of international relations. Milner's (1997) work presented a model in which bargaining at the international level would result in the status quo advantaged actor getting his ideal agreement. We conducted a face-to-face experiment between sixty-eight pairings of men to test this prediction in a controlled setting. All of…