Weingast B.R., Wittman D. The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

Oxford University Press, 2006. — 869 p. — (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science).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.FeaturesThe Oxford Handbook of Political Economy offers a major new synthesis of the dominant approach to political science
Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors
Voters, Candidates, and Pressure Groups
Overview: 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
Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context , Michael Laver
The Organization of Democratic Legislatures , Gary Cox
Coalition Governments , Daniel Diermeier
Bicameralism , Nolan McCarty
Interaction of the Legislature, President, Bureaucracy and the Courts
Overview: Separation of Power , Rui De Figueiredo, Tonja Jacobi, and Barry R. Weingast
Pivotal Politics , Keith Krebiel
Presidential Agenda Control , Charles Cameron
Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy , John Huber and Charles Shipan
The Judiciary , Mathew McCubbins
Constitutional Theory
Overview: Constitutionalism , Russell Hardin
Self-Enforcing Democracy , Adam Przeworski
Constitutins as Expressive Documents , Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin
The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality , Richard Epstein
The Political Economy Of Federalism , Jonathan Rodden
Social Choice
Overview: Social Choice , Herve Moulin
A toolkit for Voting Theory , Donald Saari
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being , Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert
Fair Division , Steven Brams
Public Finance and Public Economics
Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance , Walter Hettich and Stanley Winer
Fiscal Institutions , Juergen von Hagen
Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms , John Ledyard
Fiscal Competition , David Wildasin
Politics and Macroeconomics
Overview:The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy , Susanne Lohmann
Political Business Cycles , Robert Franzese
Voting and the Macroeconomy , Douglas Hibbs
The Political Economy of Exchange Rates , Lawrence Broz and Jeffry Frieden
Democracy and Capitalism
Overview: Democracy and Capitalism , Torben Iverson
Inequality , Edward Glaeser
Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy , Isabela Mares and Anne Wren
Democratization , Anna Grzymala & Pauline Jones-Loung
Historical and comparative development and non-democratic regimes
Overview , Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Authoritarian Regimes , Stephen Haber
The Developmental State , Bob Bates
Constitutional Design and Economic Performance , Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
Economic Geography , Anthony Venables
International political economy
Overview: International Political Economy: A maturing Discipline , David Lake
National Borders and the Size of Nations , Enrico Spolaore
European Integration , Barry Eichengreen
Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment , Ronald Rogowski
International relations and conflict
Overview: Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict , Bueno de Mesquita
Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict , James Fearon
Democracy, Peace, and War , Allan Stam and Dan Reiter
Anarchy , Stergios Skepardas
Methodological issues
Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory , David Austen-Smith
Experiments in Political Economy , Thomas Palfrey
The Toolkit of Economic Sociology , Richard Swedberg
The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action , Samuel Bowles and Herb Gintis
Old & New
Questions About a Paradox: Are There Answers? , Kenneth Arrow
Politics and Social Inquiry: Retrospective on a Half Century , James Buchanan
The Future of Analytic Politics , Melvin Hinich and Peter Ordeshook
Modeling Party Competition in General Elections , John Roemer
Old Questions and New Answers about Institutions: The Riker Objection Revisited , Kenneth Shepsle