The Politics of Oligarchy

J Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall Rosenbluth

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book examines a key question of modern Japanese politics: why the Meiji oligarchs were unable to design institutions capable of protecting their ... Lees meer

From Conflict to Coalition

Adam Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• International trade often inspires intense conflict between workers and their employers. In this book, Adam Dean studies the conditions under which la... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Property Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The Political Economy of Property Rights investigates the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China. The movement to eff... Lees meer

Political Transformations and Public Finances

Mark Dincecco

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dinc... Lees meer

Institutions and Social Conflict

Jack Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social ins... Lees meer

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Douglass C North

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which instit... Lees meer

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999

Nicolas Van de Walle

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to ... Lees meer

Multiparty Democracy

Norman Schofield, Itai Sened

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book adapts a formal model of elections and legislative politics to study party politics in Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain, and the Unit... Lees meer

The Politics of Oligarchy

J Mark Ramseyer, Frances McCall Rosenbluth

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book examines a key question of modern Japanese politics: why the Meiji oligarchs were unable to design institutions capable of protecting their ... Lees meer

The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast

Kathryn Firmin-Sellers

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book explores the political process by which property rights are defined and enforced in two traditional states in colonial Ghana. The case studi... Lees meer

Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments

Stefanie Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• When are policy makers willing to make costly adjustments to their macroeconomic policies to mitigate balance-of-payments problems? Which types of adj... Lees meer

Elbridge Gerry's Salamander

Gary W Cox, Jonathan N Katz

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a ma... Lees meer

The Supreme Court

Tom S Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches t... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Property Rights

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The Political Economy of Property Rights investigates the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China. The movement to eff... Lees meer

Opening Up By Cracking Down

Adam Dean

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• How did democratic developing countries open their economies during the late-twentieth century? Since labor unions opposed free trade, democratic gove... Lees meer

The Political Economy of the American Frontier

Ilia Murtazashvili

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth centu... Lees meer

A Theory of the State

Yoram Barzel

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book models the emergence and evolution of the rule-of-law state. The protector or ruler is assumed to be self-seeking. Individuals will install ... Lees meer

The Efficient Secret

Gary W Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• The Efficient Secret is an analysis of the institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England, concentrating on the years... Lees meer

The Democratic Dilemma

Arthur Lupia, Mathew D McCubbins

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Most citizens seem underinformed about politics. Many experts claim that only well-informed citizens can make good political decisions. Is this claim ... Lees meer

Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia

Michael L Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. Using case studies... Lees meer

Propaganda in Autocracies

Erin Baggott Carter, Brett L Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• A dictator's power is secure, the authors begin in this muscular, impressive study, only as long as citizens believe in it. When citizens suddenly bel... Lees meer

Making Votes Count

Gary W Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book investigates strategic coordination in elections worldwide. Although the classics of electoral studies have dealt with issues of coordinatio... Lees meer

The Dilemma of the Commoners

Tine de Moor

• Hardcover | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• One of the classic problems in social science is known as "the dilemma of the commons," in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by soci... Lees meer

Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy

Alberto Alesina, Howard Rosenthal

• Paperback | Engels | Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• This book explores how the political process in the United States influences the economy and how economic conditions influence electoral results. It e... Lees meer