1. Thoughts on Mancur Olson's contribution to political science 1932–1998

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2. Social heterogeneity and wasteful lobbying

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   • Alain de Janvry
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   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 27

3. When are stable rights to rents bad?

   • Daniel Sutter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 41

4. Growth, the external terms of trade and endogenous trade liberalization

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 57

5. Equilibrium in multicandidate probabilistic spatial voting

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   • James M. Enelow
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   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 82

6. How communism could have been saved: Formal analysis of electoral bargaining in Poland in 1989

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 109

7. The price of virtue

   • Margaret F. Brinig
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   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 129

8. An assessment of voting systems under the proximity and directional models of the vote

   • James Adams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 151

9. Vote splitting as insurance against uncertainty

   • Mauricio Soares Bugarin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 169

10. Incorporating groups into rational choice explanations of turnout: An empirical test

    • Miriam Lapp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 185

11. Redistribution and the income of the median voter

    • Phillip Nelson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 194

12. Public policy, perverse incentives, and the homeless problem

    • William Harris Troutman
    • John D. Jackson
    • Robert B. Ekelund Jr.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 212

13. Voter participation and the redistributive state

    • Kenneth V. Greene
    • Oleg Nikolaev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 226

14. Justin Yifu Lin, Fang Cai, and Zhoi Li, The China miracle: Development strategy and economic reform. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press of Hong Kong, 1996. xxxv + 330 pages. $18.00 (paper).

    • Robin Grier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 228

15. William H. Riker, The strategy of rhetoric: Campaigning for the American constitution. London: Yale University Press, 1996. xv + 283 pages. UK£22.50 (cloth).

    • Roger L. Faith

    OriginalPaper Pages: 228 - 232

16. Itai Sened, The political institution of private property. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 204 pages. $54.95 (cloth).

    • Paul J. Zak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 232 - 235

17. Vincent Ostrom, The meaning of democracy and the vulnerability of democracies: A response to Tocqueville's challenge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. xxi+329 pages. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

    • James M. Buchanan

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