Inclui bibliografia

Political economy: a personal interpretation and an overview - Norman J. Schofield 1. Perspectives on political economy - Political ideology, communication, and community - Melvin J. Hinich and Michael C. Munger - Implementation and enforcement in institutional modeling - Leonid Hurwicz - Toward a theory of institutional change - Douglass C. North - The development of contemporary political theory - Peter C. Ordeshook 2. Representation and voting - Proportional representation, approval voting, and coalitionally straightforward elections - Roger B. Myerson - Party competition in a spatial model of coalition formation - Norman J. Schofield - Some foundations for empirical study in the Euclidean spatial model of social choice - Craig A. Tovey 3. Political Institutions - Communication in institutions: efficiency in a repeated prisoner's dilemma with hidden information - Randall L. Calvert - The courts and slavery in the United States: Property rights and credible commitment -John N. Drobak - On the pervasiveness of sophisticated sincerity - Tim Groseclose and Keith Krehbiel - Initial versus continuing proposal power in legislative seniority systems - Richard D. McKelvey and Raymond Riezman 4. Political Competition - Adverse selection and moral hazard in a repeated elections model - Jeffrey S. Banks and Rangarajan K. Sundaram - Campaign contributions and party-candidate competition in services and policies - David P. Baron and Jongryn Mo - Polarization, incumbency, and the personal vote - John Londregan and Thomas Romer - Credibility and the responsiveness of direct legislation - Arthur Lupia 5. Information acquisition by government - Information acquisition and orthogonal argument - David Austen-Smith - A welfare analysis of political action - Susanne Lohmann 6. Government behavior - Monetary policy and credibility under exact monetary aggregation - William A. Barnett - A general equilibrium model with endogenous government behavior - Eric Drissen and Frans van Winden