Research Catalog

Title

Political economy : institutions, competition, and representation : proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics / edited by William A. Barnett, Melvin J. Hinich, Norman J. Schofield.

Author

International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics (7th : 1991 : Washington University)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Barnett, William A.
• Hinich, Melvin J.
• Schofield, Norman, 1944-

Description

xii, 522 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics

Uniform Title

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics.

Subject

• Political science > Congresses
• Economics > Congresses
• Governments
• Politics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Political economy: A personal interpretation and an overview / Norman J. Schofield -- I. Perspectives on political economy. 1. Political ideology, communication, and community / Melvin J. Hinich and Michael C. Munger. 2. Implementation and enforcement in institutional modeling / Leonid Hurwicz. 3. Toward a theory of institutional change / Douglass C. North. 4. The development of contemporary political theory / Peter C. Ordeshook -- II. Representation and voting. 5. Proportional representation, approval voting, and coalitionally straightforward elections / Roger B. Myerson. 6. Party competition in a spatial model of coalition formation / Norman J. Schofield. 7. Some foundations for empirical study in the Euclidean spatial model of social choice / Craig A. Tovey -- III. Political institutions. 8. Communication in institutions: Efficiency in a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma with hidden information / Randall L. Calvert.
• 9. The courts and slavery in the United States: Property rights and credible commitment / John N. Drobak. 10. On the pervasiveness of sophisticated sincerity / Tim Groseclose and Keith Krehbiel. 11. Initial versus continuing proposal power in legislative seniority systems / Richard D. McKelvey and Raymond Riezman -- IV. Political competition. 12. Adverse selection and moral hazard in a repeated elections model / Jeffrey S. Banks and Rangarajan K. Sundaram. 13. Campaign contributions and party-candidate competition in services and policies / David P. Baron and Jongryn Mo. 14. Polarization, incumbency, and the personal vote / John Londregan and Thomas Romer. 15. Credibility and the responsiveness of direct legislation / Arthur Lupia -- V. Information acquisition by government. 16. Information acquisition and orthogonal argument / David Austen-Smith. 17. A welfare analysis of political action / Susanne Lohmann -- VI. Government behavior.
• 18. Monetary policy and credibility under exact monetary aggregation / William A. Barnett. 19. A general equilibrium model with endogenous government behavior / Eric Drissen and Frans van Winden.

ISBN

• 0521417813 (hard)
• 0521428319 (pbk.)

LCCN

92043595

OCLC

ocm27172680

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries