TY - BOOK AU - Weingast,Barry R. AU - Wittman,Donald A. TI - The Oxford handbook of political economy T2 - The Oxford handbooks of political science SN - 9780199548477 U1 - 330 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economics KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Political science KW - Politics, Practical N1 - Originally published: 2006; Includes bibliographical references and index; The reach of political economy; Barry R. Weingast & Donald A. Whitman; Voters, candidates, and parties; Stephen Ansolabehere; Rational voters and political advertising; Andrea Prat; Candidate objectives and electoral equilibrium; John Duggan; Political income redistribution; John Londregan; The impact of electoral laws on political parties; Bernard Grofman; Legislatures and parliaments in comparative context; Michael Laver; The organization of democratic legislatures; Gary W. Cox; Coalition government; Daniel Diermeier; Does bicameralism matter?; Michael Cutrone, Nolan McCarty; The new separation-of-powers approach to American politics; Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr., Tonja Jacobi, Barry R. Weingast; Pivots; Keith Krehbiel; The political economy of the US presidency; Charles M. Cameron; Politics, delegation, and bureaucracy; John D. Huber, Charles R. Shipan; The judiciary and the role of law; Mathew D. McCubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez; Constitutionalism; Russell Hardin; Self-enforcing democracy; Adam Przeworski; Constitutions as expressive documents; Geoffrey Brennan, Alan Hamlin; The protection of liberty, property, and equality; Richard A. Epstein; Federalism; Jonathan A. Rodden; Social choice; Herve Moulin; A tool kit for voting theory; Donald G. Saari; Interpersonal comparisons of well-being; Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert; Fair division; Steven J. Brams; Structure and coherence in the political economy of public finance; Stanley l. Winer, Walter Hettich; Political economy of fiscal good mechanism; John Ledyard; Fiscal competition; David E. Wildasin; The non-politics of monetary policy; Susanne Lohmann; Political-economic cycles; Robert J. Franzese, Jr. and Karen Long Jusko; Voting and the macroeconomy; Douglas A. Hibbs, Jr; The political economy of exchange rates; J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry A. Freiden; Capitalism and democracy; Torben Iversen; Inequality; Edward l. Glaeser; Comparative perspectives on the role of the state in the economy; Anne Wren; Democratization : post-communist implications; Anna Grzymala-Busse, Pauline Jones Luong; Paths of economic and political development; Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson; Authoritarian government; Stephen Haber; The role of the state in development; Robert H. Bates; Electoral systems and economic policy; Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini; Economics geography; Antony J. Venables; international political economy : a maturing interdiscipline; David A. Lake; National borders and the size of nations; Enrico Spolaore; European integration; Barry Eichengreen; Trade, immigration, and cross-border investment; Ronald Rogowski; Central issues in the study of international conflict; Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; Ethnic mobilization and ethnic violence; James D. Fearon; Democracy, peace, and war; Dan Reiter, Allan C. Stam; Anarchy; Stergios Skaperdas; Economic methods in positive political theory; David Austen-Smith; Laboratory experiments; Thomas R. Palfrey; The tool kit of economic sociology; Richard Sweberg; The evolutionary basis of collective action; Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis; Question about a paradox; Kenneth J. Arrow; Politics and scientific enquiry : retrospective on a half-century; James M. Buchanan; The future of analytical politics; Melvin J. Hinich; What is missing from political economy; Douglass C. North; Modeling party competition in general elections; John E. Roemer; Old questions and new answers about institutions : the Riker objection revisited; Kenneth A. Shepsle N2 - Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions ER -