2. Economic models of the legislative process focus on the economic aspects of voting, logrolling, and interest group politics. Within this context, any uncertainty concerning the nature of the "deals cut" in the legislative process obscures the central elements of the process that the literature seeks to explain. Hence, such complications are assumed away by the very structure of the models.
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