1. The decline in the number of school districts in the U.S.: 1950–1980

   • Lawrence W. Kenny
   • Amy B. Schmidt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 18

2. Federalism and the growth of government revisited

   • Philip J. Grossman
   • Edwin G. West

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 32

3. The interaction of monetary policy and wages

   • Thorvaldur Gylfason
   • Assar Lindbeck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 46

4. The incumbency dilemma and rent extraction by legislators

   • James M. Buchanan
   • Roger D. Congleton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 60

5. Perceptional inequality and preferential judgements: An empirical examination of distributional axioms

   • Elizabeth Harrison
   • Christian Seidl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 81

6. Savings and loan and finance industry PAC contributions to incumbent members of the House Banking Committee

   • Randall W. Bennett
   • Christine Loucks

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 104

7. Illegal markets and the social costs of rent-seeking

   • Chris Paul
   • Al Wilhite

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 115

8. A rent-seeking model of TELs

   • Barry W. Poulson
   • Jay Kaplan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 134

9. House members as residual claimants: Campaign spending in the 1980s

   • Thomas L. Wyrick

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 147

10. Rent seeking and the welfare cost of trade barriers

    • Rigoberto A. Lopez
    • Emilio Pagoulatos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 160

11. Labour mobility and decision making on social insurance in an integrated market

    • Arjan M. Lejour
    • Harrie A. A. Verbon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 185

12. Does rain help the Republicans? Theory and evidence on turnout and the vote

    • Steve Knack

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 209

13. Call for papers

    Announcement Pages: 211 - 211