Terry Moe, the Stanford political scientist, wrote that political institutions are unique because they serve two different purposes. On the one hand, they help mitigate collective-action problems. On the other hand, they are weapons of coercion and redistribution. As a result, these institutions tend to be laden with rules because the officials designing them assume that they will be fought over, or eventually controlled by the opposition party.
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