Table of Contents

Barry R Weingast and Donald Wittman: Introduction: The Nature of Political Economy
I. VOTERS, CANDIDATES, AND PRESSURE GROUPS
1: Stephen Ansolabehere: Overview: Voters, Candidates, and Parties
2: Andrea Prat: Rational Voters and Political Advertising
3: John Duggan: Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium
4: John Londregan: Political Income Redistribution
5: Bernard Grofman: The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties
II. LEGISLATIVE BODIES
6: Michael Laver: Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context
7: Gary Cox: The Organization of Democratic Legislatures
8: Daniel Diermeier: Coalition Governments
9: Nolan McCarty and Michael Cutrone: Bicameralism
III. INTERACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE, PRESIDENT, BUREAUCRACY AND THE COURTS
10: Rui De Figueiredo, Tonja Jacobi, and Barry R Weingast: Overview: Separation of Power
11: Keith Krebiel: Pivotal Politics
12: Charles Cameron: Presidential Agenda Control
13: John Huber and Charles Shipan: Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy
14: Mathew McCubbins: The Judiciary
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY
15: Russell Hardin: Overview: Constitutionalism
16: Adam Przeworski: Self-Enforcing Democracy
17: Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin: Constitutins as Expressive Documents
18: Richard Epstein: The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality
19: Jonathan Rodden: Federalism
V. SOCIAL CHOICE
20: Herve Moulin: Overview: Social Choice
21: Donald Saari: A Toolkit for Voting Theory
22: Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert: Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
23: Steven Brams: Fair Division
VI. PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS
24: Walter Hettich and Stanley Winer: Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance
25: Juergen von Hagen: Fiscal Institutions
26: John Ledyard: Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms
27: David Wildasin: Fiscal Competition
VII. POLITICS AND MACROECONOMICS
28: Susanne Lohmann: Overview:The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy
29: Robert Franzese: Political Business Cycles
30: Douglas Hibbs: Voting and the Macroeconomy
31: Lawrence Broz and Jeffry Frieden: The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
VIII. DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM
32: Torben Iverson: Overview: Democracy and Capitalism
33: Edward Glaeser: Inequality
34: Anne Wren: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy
35: Anna Grzymala & Pauline Jones-Loung: Democratization
IX. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
36: Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson: Overview
37: Stephen Haber: Authoritarian Regimes
38: Bob Bates: The Developmental State
39: Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini: Constitutional Design and Economic Performance
40: Anthony Venables: Economic Geogrpahy
X. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
41: David Lake: Overview: International Political Economy: A Maturing Discipline
42: Enrico Spolaore: National Borders and the Size of Nations
43: Barry Eichengreen: European Integration
44: Ronald Rogowski: Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment
XI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CONFLICT
45: Bueno de Mesquita: Overview: Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict
46: James Fearon: Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict
47: Allan Stam and Dan Reiter: Democracy, Peace, and War
48: Stergios Skepardas: Anarchy
XII. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
49: David Austen-Smith: Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory
50: Thomas Palfrey: Experiments in Political Economy
51: Richard Swedberg: The Toolkit of Economic Sociology
52: Samuel Bowles and Herb Gintis: The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
XIII. OLD & NEW
53: Kenneth Arrow: Questions About a Paradox: Are There Answers?
54: James Buchanan: Politics and Social Inquiry: Retrospective on a Half Century
55: Melvin Hinich: The Future of Analytic Politics
56: John Roemer: Modeling Party Competition in General Elections
57: Kenneth Shepsle: Old Questions and New Answers about Institutions: The Riker Objection Revisited
58: Douglass C. North: What's Missing from Political Economy?

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