The Oxford handbook of political economy /
Handbook of political economy Political economy
edited by Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman.
- xvii, 1093 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- The Oxford handbooks of political science .
- Oxford handbooks of political science. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The reach of political economy / Voters, candidates, and parties / Rational voters and political advertising / Candidate objectives and electoral equilibrium / Political income redistribution / The impact of electoral laws on political parties / Legislatures and parliaments in comparative context / The organization of democratic legislatures / Coalition government / Does bicameralism matter? / The new separation-of-powers approach to American politics / Pivots / The political economy of the US presidency / Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy / The judiciary and the role of law / Constitutionalism / Self-enforcing democracy / Constitutions as expressive documents / The protection of liberty, property, and equality / Federalism / Social choice / A tool kit for voting theory / Interpersonal comparisons of well-being / Fair division / Structure and coherence in the political economy of public finance / Political economy of fiscal institutions / Voting and efficient public good mechanisms / Fiscal competition / The non-politics of monetary policy / Political-economic cycles / Voting and the macroeconomy / The political economy of exchange rates / Capitalism and democracy / Inequality / Comparative perspectives on the role of the state in the economy / Democratization : post-communist implications / Paths of economic and political development / Authoritarian government / The role of the state in development / Electoral systems and economic policy / Economic geography / International political economy : a maturing interdiscipline / National borders and the size of nations / European integration / Trade, immigration, and cross-border investment / Central issues in the study of international conflict / Ethnic mobilization and ethnic violence / Democracy, peace, and war / Anarchy / Economic methods in positive political theory / Laboratory experiments / The tool kit of economic sociology / The evolutionary basis of collective action / Questions about a paradox / Politics and scientific enquiry : retrospective on a half-century / The future of analytical politics / What is missing from political economy / Modeling party competition in general elections / Old questions and new answers about institutions : the Riker objection revisited / Barry R. Weingast and Donald A. Wittman -- Stephen Ansolabehere -- Andrea Prat -- John Duggan -- John Londregan -- Bernard Grofman -- Michael Laver -- Gary W. Cox -- Daniel Diermeier -- Michael Cutrone and Nolan McCarty -- Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., Tonja Jacobi and Barry R. Weingast -- Keith Krehbiel -- Charles M. Cameron -- John D. Huber and Charles R. Shipan -- Mathew D. McCubbins and Daniel B. Rodriguez -- Russell Hardin -- Adam Przeworski -- Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin -- Richard A. Epstein -- Jonathan A. Rodden -- Herve Moulin -- Donald G. Saari -- Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert -- Steven J. Brams -- Stanley L. Winer and Walter Hettich -- Jurgen von Hagen -- John Ledyard -- David E. Wildasin -- Susanne Lohmann -- Robert J. Franzese, Jr. and Karen Long Jusko -- Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr. -- J. Lawrence Broz and Jeffry A. Frieden -- Torben Iversen -- Edward L. Glaeser -- Anne Wren -- Anna Grzymala-Busse and Pauline Jones Luong -- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson -- Stephen Haber -- Robert H. Bates -- Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Anthony J. Venables -- David L. Lake -- Enrico Spolaore -- Barry Eichengreen -- Ronald Rogowski -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita -- James D. Fearon -- Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam -- Stergios Skaperdas -- David Austen-Smith -- Thomas R. Palfrey -- Richard Swedberg -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Kenneth J. Arrow -- James M. Buchanan -- Melvin J. Hinich -- Douglass C. North -- John E. Roemer -- Kenneth A. Shepsle. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59.
The Handbook views political economy as a set of methodologies, typically associated with economies, but now part and parcel of political science itself, that are used to explain political and economic phenomena at both the micro and macro level. As such, political economy becomes a grand, if incomplete, synthesis of the various strands of social science. Because institutions are often the subject matter of investigation, this approach incorporates many of the issues of concern to political sociologists and historians. Because political behavior and institutions are themselves a subject of study, politics becomes the subject of political economy. And because political economy also deals with the interaction between the political and economic spheres, economics itself can be seen as a special subset of the analysis. This handbook surveys the field of political economy, with 59 chapters ranging from national to international, institutional to behavioral, and methodological to substantive. Chapters on social choice, constitutional theory, and public economics are set alongside ones on voters and pressure groups, macroeconomics and politics, capitalism and democracy, and international political economy and international conflict.