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Oxford Handbook of Political Economy

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ISBN-10: 0199548471

ISBN-13: 9780199548477

Edition: 2008

Authors: Barry R. Weingast, Donald A. Wittman, Barry R. Weingast

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Over its long lifetime, "political economy" has had many different meanings: the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; thestudy of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality (the economic or "public choice" approach) or institutional adaptation (the sociological version). This Handbook views politicaleconomy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands, treating political economy as the…    
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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1112
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 4.202
Language: English

Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.

Introduction: The Nature of Political Economy
Voters, Candidates, and Pressure Groups
Overview: 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
Legislative Bodies
Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context
The Organization of Democratic Legislatures
Coalition Governments
Bicameralism
Interaction of the Legislature, President, Bureaucracy and the Courts
Overview: Separation of Power
Pivotal Politics
Presidential Agenda Control
Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy
The Judiciary
Constitutional Theory
Overview: Constitutionalism
Self-Enforcing Democracy
Constitutins as Expressive Documents
The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality
Federalism
Social Choice
Overview: Social Choice, Herve Moulin
A Toolkit for Voting Theory
Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being
Fair Division
Public Finance and Public Economics
Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance
Fiscal Institutions
Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms
Fiscal Competition
Politics and Macroeconomics
Overview:The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy
Political Business Cycles
Voting and the Macroeconomy
The Political Economy of Exchange Rates
Democracy and Capitalism
Overview: Democracy and Capitalism
Inequality
Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy
Democratization
Historical and Comparative Development and Non-Democratic Regimes
Overview
Authoritarian Regimes
The Developmental State
Constitutional Design and Economic Performance
Economic Geogrpahy
International Political Economy
Overview: International Political Economy: A Maturing Discipline
National Borders and the Size of Nations
European Integration
Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment
International Relations and Conflict
Overview: Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict
Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict
Democracy, Peace, and War
Anarchy