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The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science

, Volume 7
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Barry R. Weingast, Donald A. Wittman
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Oxford Handbooks Online, 2006 - Political Science - 1093 pages
Over its long lifetime, "political economy" has had many different meanings: the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; the study of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality (the economic or "public choice" approach) or institutional adaptation (the sociological version). This Handbook views political economy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands, treating political economy as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behavior and institutions.

This Handbook surveys the field of political economy, with fifty-eight chapters ranging from micro to macro, national to international, institutional to behavioral, methodological to substantive. Chapters on social choice, constitutional theory, and public economics are set alongside ones on voters, parties and pressure groups, macroeconomics and politics, capitalism and democracy, and international political economy and international conflict.
  

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Contents

The Reach of Political Economy
3
VOTERS CANDIDATES
27
Rational Voters and Political Advertising
50
Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium
64
Political Income Redistribution
84
The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties
102
Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context
121
The Organization of Democratic Legislatures
141
Voting and the Macroeconomy
565
The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
587
Capitalism and Democracy
601
Inequality
624
Comparative Perspectives on the Role of the State in the Economy
642
PostCommunist Implications
656
HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE
671
Authoritarian Government
693

Coalition Government
162
Does Bicameralism Matter?
180
INTERACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE
197
Pivots
223
The Political Economy of the US Presidency
241
Politics Delegation and Bureaucracy
256
The Judiciary and the Role of Law
273
Constitutionalism
289
SelfEnforcing Democracy
312
Constitutions as Expressive Documents
329
The Protection of Liberty Property and Equality
342
Federalism
357
Social Choice
373
A Tool Kit for Voting Theory
390
Interpersonal Comparisons of WellBeing
408
Fair Division
425
PUBLIC FINANCE
439
Political Economy of Fiscal Institutions
464
Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms
479
Fiscal Competition
502
The NonPolitics of Monetary Policy
523
PoliticalEconomic Cycles
545
The Role of the State in Development
708
Electoral Systems and Economic Policy
723
Economic Geography
739
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
755
National Borders and the Size of Nations
778
European Integration
799
Trade Immigration and CrossBorder Investment
814
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
829
Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence
852
Democracy Peace and War
869
Anarchy
881
Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory
899
Laboratory Experiments
915
The Tool Kit of Economic Sociology
937
The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action
951
Questions about a Paradox
971
Retrospective on a Halfcentury
980
The Future of Analytical Politics
996
Modeling Party Competition in General Elections
1010
Index
1050
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Authoritarian Government. Stephen Haber. This article benefited from discussions with Noel Maurer. ...
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Alan Hamlin’s Selected Publications and CV
Brennan G and Hamlin ap, Constitutions as Expressive Documents in Weingast, B. and Witman, D. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford; ...
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Articles & Chapters
International Political Economy: An Emerging Interdiscipline. in The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds. ...
dss.ucsd.edu/ ~dlake/ articles.html

Positive institutional analysis: an introduction
Cox Gary W (2006) The Organization of Democratic Legislatures, In Barry Weingast and Donald Wittman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. ...
www.sociol.unimi.it/ dottorato/ dottoratostp/ documenti/ File/ Positive%20institutional%20analysis%202006-2007.doc

Donald Wittman
Here are my latest books: The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, which I co-edited with Barry Weingast, and Economic Foundations of Law and Organization. ...
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Topics in American Politics: Rational Choice Models and Politics
Voters, Candidates, and Parties. In Barry R. Weingast. and Donald A. Wittman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford. University Press, pp. ...
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About the author (2006)

Donald Wittman is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He previously taught at the University of Chicago. Professor Wittman's book The Myth of Democratic Failure (1995) won the American Political Science Association award for the best title in political economy in the years 1994 1996. He is coeditor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. Professor Wittman's research has appeared in journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, American Political Science Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Law and Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. His research has been supported by various National Science Foundation programs.

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