1. Victimization, rent-seeking and just compensation

   • Dan Usher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 20

2. Police bureaucracies, their incentives, and the war on drugs

   • Bruce L. Benson
   • David W. Rasmussen
   • David L. Sollars

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 45

3. Empirical evidence on the publicness of state legislative activities

   • Randall G. Holcombe
   • Russell S. Sobel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 58

4. Check bouncing and fiscal irresponsibility: Evidence of nonideological shirking by legislators

   • Willem Thorbecke
   • Sarah Matzelevich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 64

5. Looking for a smoking gun: Committee jurisdictions and congressional voting decisions

   • Charles R. Shipan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 79

6. Privately informed seekers of an uncertain rent

   • Ronald M. Harstad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 93

7. Win, lose, or withdraw: A categorical analysis of career patterns in the House of Representatives, 1948–1978

   • Dennis Coates
   • Michael C. Munger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 111

8. Competitive-share group formation in rent-seeking contests

   • Kyung Hwan Baik
   • Jason F. Shogren

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 126

9. Public choice and the EPA: Empirical evidence on carbon emissions violations

   • Franklin G. Mixon Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 137

10. Bureaucratic tenure and economic performance in centrally planned economies

    • Roger L. Faith
    • Nancy C. Short

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 157

11. A rational-voter explanation of the cost of ruling

    • Martin Paldam
    • Peter Skott

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 172

12. How to pay for the peace? A theoretical framework with references to African countries

    • Jean-Paul Azam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 184

13. Book reviews

    • Robert B. Ekelund Jr.
    • Bruce Yandle
    • Michael J. G. Cain

    BookReview Pages: 185 - 201