The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

Introduction: The Nature of Political Economy ; I. VOTERS, CANDIDATES, AND PRESSURE GROUPS ; 1. Overview: Voters, Candidates, and Parties ; 2. Rational Voters and Political Advertising ; 3. Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium ; 4. Political Income Redistribution ; 5. The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties ; II. LEGISLATIVE BODIES ; 6. Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context ; 7. The Organization of Democratic Legislatures ; 8. Coalition Governments ; 9. Bicameralism ; III. INTERACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE, PRESIDENT, BUREAUCRACY AND THE COURTS ; 10. Overview: Separation of Power ; 11. Pivotal Politics ; 12. Presidential Agenda Control ; 13. Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy ; 14. The Judiciary ; IV. CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY ; 15. Overview: Constitutionalism ; 16. Self-Enforcing Democracy ; 17. Constitutins as Expressive Documents ; 18. The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality ; 19. Federalism ; V. SOCIAL CHOICE ; 20. Overview: Social Choice ; 21. A Toolkit for Voting Theory ; 22. Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being ; 23. Fair Division ; VI. PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS ; 24. Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance ; 25. Fiscal Institutions ; 26. Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms ; 27. Fiscal Competition ; VII. POLITICS AND MACROECONOMICS ; 28. Overview:The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy ; 29. Political Business Cycles ; 30. Voting and the Macroeconomy ; 31. The Political Economy of Exchange Rates ; VIII. DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM ; 32. Overview: Democracy and Capitalism ; 33. Inequality ; 34. Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy ; 35. Democratization ; IX. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES ; 36. Overview ; 37. Authoritarian Regimes ; 38. The Developmental State ; 39. Constitutional Design and Economic Performance ; 40. Economic Geogrpahy ; X. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ; 41. Overview:

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