The Oxford handbook of political economy / edited by Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The reach of political economy / Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Whitman -- Voters, candidates, and pressure groups -- Voters, candidates, and parties / Stephen Ansolabehere -- Rational voters and political advertising / Andrea Prat -- Candidate objectives and electoral equilibrium / John Duggan -- Political income redistribution / John Londregan -- The impact of electoral laws on political parties / Bernard Grofman -- Legislative bodies -- Legislatures and pariaments in comparative context / Michael Laver -- The organization of democratic legislatures / Gary W. Cox -- Coalition government / Daniel Diermeier -- Does bicameralism matter? / Michael Cutrone and nolan McCarty -- Interaction of the legislature, president, bureaucracy, and the courts -- The new separation-of-powers approach to American politics / Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., Tonja Jacobi and Narry R. Weingast -- Pivots / Keith Krehbiel -- The political economy of the US presidency / Charles M. Cameron -- Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy / John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan -- The judiciary and the role of law / Mathew D. McCubbins and Daniel B. Rodriguez -- Constitutional theory -- Constitutionalism / Russell Hardin -- Self-enforcing democracy / Adam Przeworski -- Constitutions as expressive documents / Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin -- The protection of liberty, property, and equality / Richard A. Epstein -- Ferderalism / Jonathan A. Rodden -- Social choice -- Social choice / Herve Moulin -- A tool kit for voting theory / Donald G. Saari -- Interpersonal comparisons of well-being / Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert -- Fair division / Steven J. Brams -- Public finance and public economics -- Structure and coherence in the political economy of public finance / Stanley leaves Winer and Walter Hettich -- Political economy of fiscal good mechanism / John Ledyard -- Fiscal competition / David E. Wildasin -- Politics and macroeconomics -- The non-politics of monetary policy / Susanne Lohmann -- Politcal-economic cycles / Robert J. Franzese, Jr. and Karen Long Jusko -- Voting and the macroeconomy / Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. -- The political economy of exchanges rates / J. Lawrence Broz and Jeffry A. Freiden -- Democracy and capitialism -- Capitalism and democracy / Torben Iversen -- Inequality / edward leaves Glaeser -- Comparative perspectives on the role of the State in the economy / Anne Warren -- Democratization: post-communist implications / Anna Grzymala-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong -- Historical and comparative development and non-democratic regimes -- paths of economic and political development / Daron acemoglu and James A. Robinson -- Authoritarian government / Stephen Haber -- The role of the State in development / Robert H. Bates -- Electronal systems and economic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Economics geography / Antony J. Venables -- International politcal economy -- international political economy: a maturing interdiscipline / David A. Lake -- National borders and the size of nations / Enrico Spolaore -- European integration / Barry Eichengreen -- Trade, immigration, and cross-border investent / Ronald Rogowski -- International relations and conflict -- Central issues in the study of international conflict / Bruce Bueno de Mesuita -- Ethnic mobalization and ethnic violence / James D. Fearon -- Democracy, peace, and war / Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam -- Anarchy / Stergios Skaperdas -- Methodological issues -- Economic methods in positive political theory / David Austen-Smith -- Laboratory Experiments / Thomas R. Palfrey -- The tool kit of economic sociology / Richard Sweberg -- The evolutionary basis of collective action / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Old and new -- Question about a paradox / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Politics and scientific enquiry: retrospective on a half-century / James M. Buchanan -- The future of analytical politics / Melvin J. Hinich -- What is missing from political economy / Douglass C. North -- Modeling party competition in general elections / John E. Roemer -- Old questions and new answers about institutions: the Riker Objection revisited / Kenneth A. Shepsle.