1. Fiscal illusion and the Australian local government grants process: How sticky is the flypaper effect?

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

2. The effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes: A data envelopment analysis

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 37

3. Why do people vote? An experiment in rationality

   • André Blais
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   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 55

4. The number of rent-seekers and aggregate rent-seeking expenditures: An unpleasant result

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 62

5. The design of rent-seeking competitions: Committees, preliminary and final contests

   • J. Atsu Amegashie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 76

6. Tax and expenditure limitations and the fiscal relationships between state and local governments

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 102

7. The effect of incomplete information in a threshold public goods experiment

   • Melanie B. Marks
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   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 118

8. The median voter model across levels of government

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 138

9. The voluntary provision of a pure public good with diminishing marginal returns

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   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 160

10. When registration barriers fall, who votes?: An empirical test of a rational choice model

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 176

11. Friedman's theory of income redistribution up after being down for the count

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 184

12. Congressional distributive politics and state economic performance

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 216

13. Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, and Ronald Wintrobe (Eds.), Understanding democracy: Economic and political perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. vii + 279 pages. $59.95 (cloth).

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 219

14. Bruce Yandle, Common sense and common law for the environment: Creating wealth in hummingbird economies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 1997. xviii + 182 pages. $56.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper).

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 224

15. Frans A. van der Zee, Political economy models and agricultural policy formation: Empirical applicability and relevance for the CAP. Mansholt Studies 8. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers, 1997. xi + 269 pages. NLG 80.00 (paper).

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16. Dennis C. Mueller, Constitutional democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 382 pages. $65 (cloth).

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 232

17. A.M. Endres, Neoclassical microeconomic theory: The founding Austrian vision. Foundations of a Market Economy. London: Routledge, 1997. 263 pages. $75.00 (cloth).

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    OriginalPaper Pages: 232 - 236