Advances in Political Economy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Transaction Cost Politics in the Map of the New Institutionalism

      • Gonzalo Caballero, Xosé Carlos Arias

      Pages 3-29

   3. Political Transitions in Ancient Greece and Medieval Italy: An Analytic Narrative

      • Leandro De Magalhães

      Pages 31-45

   4. A Collective-Action Theory of Fiscal-Military State Building

      • Luz Marina Arias

      Pages 47-66

   5. Stable Constitutions in Political Transition

      • Katja Michalak, Gerald Pech

      Pages 67-89

   6. Quandaries of Gridlock and Leadership in US Electoral Politics

      • Evan Schnidman, Norman Schofield

      Pages 91-127

   7. Sub-central Governments and Debt Crisis in Spain over the Period 2000–2011

      • Fernando Toboso

      Pages 129-144

   8. Deciding How to Choose the Healthcare System

      • Olga Shvetsova, Katri K. Sieberg

      Pages 145-166

3. Modelling

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Challenges to the Standard Euclidean Spatial Model

      • Jon X. Eguia

      Pages 169-180

   3. A Non-existence Theorem for Clientelism in Spatial Models

      • Daniel Kselman

      Pages 181-201

   4. Nonseparable Preferences and Issue Packaging in Elections

      • Dean Lacy, Emerson M. S. Niou

      Pages 203-215

   5. When Will Incumbents Avoid a Primary Challenge? Aggregation of Partial Information About Candidates’ Valence

      • Gilles Serra

      Pages 217-247

   6. Measuring the Latent Quality of Precedent: Scoring Vertices in a Network

      • John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Keith E. Schnakenberg

      Pages 249-262

4. Empirical Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. The Politics of Austerity: Modeling British Attitudes Towards Public Spending Cuts

      • Harold D. Clarke, Walter Borges, Marianne C. Stewart, David Sanders, Paul Whiteley

      Pages 265-287

   3. Modeling Elections with Varying Party Bundles: Applications to the 2004 Canadian Election

      • Kevin McAlister, Jee Seon Jeon, Norman Schofield

      Pages 289-315

   4. Spatial Model of Elections in Turkey: Tracing Changes in the Party System in the 2000s

      • Norman Schofield, Betul Demirkaya

      Pages 317-330

   5. Do Competitive Districts Necessarily Produce Centrist Politicians?

      • James Adams, Thomas L. Brunell, Bernard Grofman, Samuel Merrill III

      Pages 331-350

This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the influence of activists on political decisions; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods.

• Institutions
• Political Economy
• Voting

• Center in Political Economy, Washington University in St.Louis, Saint Louis, USA

  Norman Schofield

• , Faculty of Economics, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

  Gonzalo Caballero

• Centro de Estudios Avanzados, en Ciencias Sociales, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain

  Daniel Kselman

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