The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Volume 4Barry R. Weingast, Donald A. Wittman The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.; 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 58 chapters ranging from micro to macro, national to international, institutional to behavioral, methodological to substantive.; Chapters on social choice, constitutional theory, and public. |
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 |
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