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 ...

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