1. ‘Our 40th volume’

   Announcement Pages: 3 - 3

2. Editorial

   • Gordon Tullock

   EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 5

3. Public choice in local judicial systems

   • Josef M. Broder
   • A. Allan Schmid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 19

4. Pre-meeting discussions and the possibility of coalition-breaking procedures in majority rule committees

   • Elizabeth Hoffman
   • Charles R. Plott

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 39

5. Political terrorism and the size of government: A positive institutional analysis of violent political activity

   • Richard M. Kirk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 52

6. Presidential politics, budget deficits, and monetary policy in the United States; 1960–1976

   • Leroy O. Laney
   • Thomas D. Willett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 69

7. The determination of local public expenditures and the principal and agent relation: A case study

   • Sharon Bernstein Megdal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 87

8. Recontracting, trustworthiness, and the stability of vote exchanges

   • James S. Coleman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 94

9. Property rights in bureaucracies and bureaucratic efficiency

   • John L. Dobra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 99

10. Addictive goods and the growth of government

    • Franz Jessen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 103

11. Economic agents and the level of pollution control

    • Bruce Yandle

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 109

12. Review

    • Gordon Tullock

    BookReview Pages: 111 - 116