Includes Bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Nature of Political Economy, Barry R Weingast and Donald Wittman
I. VOTERS, CANDIDATES, AND PRESSURE GROUPS
1:Overview: Voters, Candidates, and Parties, Stephen Ansolabehere
2:Rational Voters and Political Advertising, Andrea Prat
3:Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium, John Duggan
4:Political Income Redistribution, John Londregan
5:The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties, Bernard Grofman
II. LEGISLATIVE BODIES
6:Overview: Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context, Michael Laver
7:The Organization of Democratic Legislatures, Gary Cox
8:Coalition Governments, Daniel Diermeier
9:Bicameralism, Nolan McCarty and Michael Cutrone
III. INTERACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE, PRESIDENT, BUREAUCRACY AND THE COURTS
10:Overview: Separation of Power, Rui De Figueiredo, Tonja Jacobi, and Barry R Weingast
11:Pivotal Politics, Keith Krebiel
12:Presidential Agenda Control, Charles Cameron
13:Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy, John Huber and Charles Shipan
14:The Judiciary, Mathew McCubbins
IV. CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY
15:Overview: Constitutionalism, Russell Hardin
16:Self-Enforcing Democracy, Adam Przeworski
17:Constitutins as Expressive Documents, Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin
18:The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality, Richard Epstein
19:Federalism, Jonathan Rodden
V. SOCIAL CHOICE
20:Overview: Social Choice, Herve Moulin
21:A Toolkit for Voting Theory, Donald Saari
22:Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being, Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert
23:Fair Division, Steven Brams
VI. PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS
24:Overview: Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance, Walter Hettich and Stanley Winer
25:Fiscal Institutions, Juergen von Hagen
26:Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms, John Ledyard
27:Fiscal Competition, David Wildasin
VII. POLITICS AND MACROECONOMICS
28:Overview:The Nonpolitics of Monetary Policy, Susanne Lohmann
29:Political Business Cycles, Robert Franzese
30:Voting and the Macroeconomy, Douglas Hibbs
31:The Political Economy of Exchange Rates, Lawrence Broz and Jeffry Frieden
VIII. DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM
32:Overview: Democracy and Capitalism, Torben Iverson
33:Inequality, Edward Glaeser
34:Comparative Perspectives on the Place of the State in the Economy, Anne Wren
35:Democratization, Anna Grzymala & Pauline Jones-Loung
IX. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND NON-DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
36:Overview, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
37:Authoritarian Regimes, Stephen Haber
38:The Developmental State, Bob Bates
39:Constitutional Design and Economic Performance, Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini
40:Economic Geogrpahy, Anthony Venables
X. INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
41:Overview: International Political Economy: A Maturing Discipline, David Lake
42:National Borders and the Size of Nations, Enrico Spolaore
43:European Integration, Barry Eichengreen
44:Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment, Ronald Rogowski
XI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CONFLICT
45:Overview: Central Issues in the Study of International Conflict, Bueno de Mesquita
46:Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Conflict, James Fearon
47:Democracy, Peace, and War, Allan Stam and Dan Reiter
48:Anarchy, Stergios Skepardas
XII. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
49:Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory, David Austen-Smith
50:Experiments in Political Economy, Thomas Palfrey
51:The Toolkit of Economic Sociology, Richard Swedberg
52:The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action, Samuel Bowles and Herb Gintis
XIII. OLD & NEW
53:Questions About a Paradox: Are There Answers?, Kenneth Arrow
54:Politics and Social Inquiry: Retrospective on a Half Century, James Buchanan
55:The Future of Analytic Politics, Melvin Hinich
56:Modeling Party Competition in General Elections, John Roemer
57:Old Questions and New Answers about Institutions: The Riker Objection Revisited, Kenneth Shepsle
58:What's Missing from Political Economy?, Douglass C. North

Over its long lifetime, political economy has had many different meanings: the science of managing the resources of a nation so as to provide wealth to its inhabitants for Adam Smith; the study of how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes for Marx; the study of the inter-relationship between economics and politics for some twentieth-century commentators; and for others, a methodology emphasizing individual rationality (the economic or public choice approach) or institutional adaptation (the sociological version). This Handbook views political economy as a grand (if imperfect) synthesis of these various strands, treating political economy as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behavior and institutions.