The Oxford handbook of political economy /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Description:xvii, 1093 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Oxford handbooks of political science
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6118217
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of political economy
Other authors / contributors:Weingast, Barry R.
Wittman, Donald A.
ISBN:0199272220 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Nature of Political Economy
  • I. Voters, Candidates, and Pressure Groups
  • 1. Overview: Voters, Candidates, and Parties
  • 2. Rational Voters and Political Advertising
  • 3. Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium
  • 4. Political Income Redistribution
  • 5. The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties
  • II. Legislative Bodies
  • 6. Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context
  • 7. The Organization of Democratic Legislatures
  • 8. Coalition Governments
  • 9. Bicameralism
  • III. Interaction of The Legislature, President, Bureaucracy and The Courts
  • 10. Overview: Separation of Power
  • 11. Pivotal Politics
  • 12. Presidential Agenda Control
  • 13. Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy
  • 14. The Judiciary
  • IV. Constitutional Theory
  • 15. Overview: Constitutionalism
  • 16. Self-Enforcing Democracy
  • 17. Constitutins as Expressive Documents
  • 18. The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality
  • 19. Federalism
  • V. Social Choice
  • 20. Overview: Social Choice
  • 21. A Toolkit for Voting Theory
  • 22. Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
  • 23. Fair Division
  • VI. Public Finance and Public Economics
  • 24. Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance
  • 25. Fiscal Institutions
  • 26. Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms
  • 27. Fiscal Competition
  • VII. Politics and Macroeconomics
  • 28. Overview: The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy
  • 29. Political Business Cycles
  • 30. Voting and the Macroeconomy
  • 31. The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
  • VIII. Democracy and Capitalism
  • 32. Overview: Democracy and Capitalism
  • 33. Inequality
  • 34. Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy
  • 35. Democratization
  • IX. Historical and Comparative Development and Non-Democratic Regimes
  • 36. Overview
  • 37. Authoritarian Regimes
  • 38. The Developmental State
  • 39. Constitutional Design and Economic Performance
  • 40. Economic Geogrpahy
  • X. International Political Economy
  • 41. Overview: International Political Economy: A Maturing Discipline
  • 42. National Borders and the Size of Nations
  • 43. European Integration
  • 44. Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment
  • XI. International Relations and Conflict
  • 45. Overview: Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict
  • 46. Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict
  • 47. Democracy, Peace, and War
  • 48. Anarchy