Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Norman Schofield and Gonzalo Caballero
Part I:
Institutions
Institutions:
Rules or Equilibria? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Avner Greif and
Christopher Kingston
War, Wealth
and the Formation of States .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …….. . . . . 45
Carles Boix, Bruno
Codenotti, and Giovanni Resta
Why Do Weak
States Prefer Prohibition to Taxation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. . .. 75
Desiree
A. Desierto and John V.C. Nye
Self-Enforcing,
Public-Order Institutions for Contract
Enforcement:
Litigation, Regulation, and Limited Government
in Venice, 1050–1350 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Yadira González de Lara
Judicial
Stability During Regime Change: Apex Courts
in India
1937–1960 . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 119
Alfred
W. Darnell and Sunita Parikh
Institutional
Arrangements Matter for Both Efficiency
and
Distribution: Contributions and Challenges
of the New
Institutional Economics .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .
137
Fernando
Toboso
Institutional
Foundations, Committee System and Amateur
Legislators
in the Governance of the Spanish Congress: An
Institutional
Comparative Perspective (USA,
Argentina, Spain)
. . . . . . ………… . .
157
Gonzalo
Caballero
Coalition
Governments and Electoral Behavior:
Who Is
Accountable? . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 185
Ignacio
Urquizu-Sancho
Part II: Democracy and Voting
Empirical and
Formal Models of the United
States
Presidential
Elections in 2000 and 2004 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Norman
Schofield, Christopher Claassen, Maria Gallego,
and
Ugur Ozdemir
Modelling
Elections in Post-Communist Regimes:
Voter
Perceptions, Political Leaders and Activists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….. . . . .
259
Norman
Schofield, JeeSeon Jeon,
Marina Muskhelishvili,
Ugur Ozdemir, and Margit Tavits
Electoral
Systems and Party Responsiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 303
Lawrence Ezrow
Electoral
Institutions and Political Corruption: Ballot
Structure,
Electoral Formula, and Graft .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Daniel
Max Kselman
A Model of
Party Entry in Parliamentary Systems
with
Proportional Representation .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Daniel
M. Kselman and Joshua A. Tucker
Moving in
Time: Legislative Party Switching
as
Time-Contingent Choice .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 389
Carol
Mershon and Olga Shvetsova
On the Distribution
of Particularistic Goods .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Jon
X. Eguia and Antonio Nicolo`
Vote
Revelation: Empirical Content of Scoring Rules . . . . . . . . . . … . . . . . . . . . 411
Andrei
Gomberg
Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
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