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Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting 

Schofield, N. and Caballero, G. (Eds.)

 

 

Springer 2011

 

425 p. 66 illus. ; Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-642-19518-1                                                    

 

 

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.

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

 

 

To remember participants in the Baiona conference where the papers were presented and discussed ...