Part I - Introduction 1. The reach of political economy. -- Barry R. Weingast, Donald A. Whitman Part II - Voters, candidates, and pressure groups 2. Voters, candidates, and parties. -- Stephen Ansolabehere 3. Rational voters and political advertising .-- Andrea Prat 4. Candidate objectives and electoral equilibrium. -- John Duggan 5. Political income redistribution. -- John Londregan 6. The impact of electoral laws on political parties. -- Bernard Grofman Part III - Legislative bodies 7. Legislatures and parliaments in comparative context. -- Michael Laver 8. The organization of democratic legislatures. -- Gary W. Cox 9. Coalition government. -- Daniel Diermeier 10. Does bicameralism matter?. -- Michael Cutrone, Nolan McCarty Parte IV - Interaction of the legislature, president, bureaucracy, and the courts 11. The new separation-of-powers approach to American politics. -- Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr., Tonja Jacobi, Narry R. Weingast 12. Pivots. -- Keith Krehbiel 13. The political economy of the US presidency. -- Charles M. Cameron 14. Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy. -- John D. Huber, Charles R. Shipan 15. The judiciary and the role of law. -- Mathew D. McCubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez Part V - Constitutional theory 16. Constitutionalism. -- Russell Hardin 17. Self-enforcing democracy. -- Adam Przeworski 18. Constitutions as expressive documents. -- Geoffrey Brennan, Alan Hamlin 19. The protection of liberty, property, and equality. -- Richard A. Epstein 20. Federalism. -- Jonathan A. Rodden Part VI - Social choice. 21. Social choice. -- Herve Moulin 22.A tool kit for voting theory. -- Donald G. Saari 23. Interpersonal comparisons of well-being. -- Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert 24. Fair division. -- Steven J. Brams Part VII - Public finance and public economics. 25. Structure and coherence in the political economy of public finance. -- Stanley l. Winer and Walter Hettich 26. Political economy of fiscal good mechanism. -- John Ledyard 27. Voting and efficient public good mechanisms 28. Fiscal Competition. -- David E. Wildasin Part VIII - Politics and macroeconomics 29. The Non-Politics of Monetary Policy. -- Susanne Lohmann 30. Political-Economic Cycles. -- Robert J. Franzese, Jr., Karen Long Jusko 31. Voting and the Macroeconomy. -- Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. 32. The Political Economy of Exchange Rates. -- J. Lawrence Broz & Jeffry A. Frieden Part IX - Democracy and capitalism 33. Capitalism and Democracy. -- Torben Iversen 34. Inequality. -- Edward L. Glaeser 35. Comparative Perspectives on the Role of the State in the Economy. -- Anne Wren 36. Democratization: Post-Communist Implications. -- Anna Grzymala-Busse, Pauline Jones Luong Part X - Historical and comparative development and non-democratic regimes 37. Paths of Economic and Political Development. -- Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson 38. Authoritarian Government. -- Stephen Haber 39. The Role of the State in Development. -- Robert H. Bates 40. Electoral Systems and Economic Policy. -- Torsten Person & Guido Tabellini 41. Economic Geography. -- Anthony J. Venables Part XI - International political economy 42. International Political Economy: A Maturing Interdiscipline. -- David A. Lake 43. National Borders and the Size of Nations. -- Enrico Spolaore 44. European Integration. -- Barry Eichengreen 45. Trade, Immigration, and Cross- Border Investment. -- Ronald Rogowski Part XII - International relations and conflict 46. Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 47. Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence. -- James D. Fearon 48. Democracy, Peace and War. -- Dan Reiter, Allan C. Stam 49. Anarchy. -- Stergios Skaperdas PART XIII - METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 50. Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory. -- David Austen-Smith 51. Laboratory Experiments. -- Thomas R. Palfrey 52. The Tool Kit of Economic Sociology. -- Richard Swedberg 53. The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action. -- Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis Part XIV - Old and new 54. Questions about a Paradox. -- Kenneth J. Arrow 55. Politics and Scientific Enquiry: Retrospective on a Half-century. -- James M. Buchanan 56. The Future of Analytical Politics. -- Melvin J. Hinich 57. What is Missing from Political Economy. -- Douglass C. North 58. Modeling Party Competition in General Elections. -- John E. Roemer 59. Old Questions and New Answers about Institutions: The Riker Objection Revisited. -- Kenneth A. Shepsle Author Index
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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.