Contents
- Part I Introduction
- 1. It Isn’t Rocket Science, But…
- 2. Rationality: The Model of Choice
- Part II Group Choice
- 3. Getting Started on Group Choice Analysis
- 4. Group Choice and Majority Rule
- 5. Spatial Models of Majority Rule
- 6. Strategic Behavior
- 7. Voting Methods and Electoral Systems
- Part III Cooperation, Collective Action, and Public Goods
- 8. Cooperation
- 9. Collective Action
- 10. Public Goods, Externalities, and the Commons
- Part IV Institutions
- 11. Institutions: General Remarks
- 12. Legislatures
- 13. Bureaucracy and Intergovernmental Relations
- 14. Leadership
- 15. Courts and Judges
- 16. Cabinet Government and Parliamentary Democracy
- 17. Final Lessons
- Case Studies
- Case 2.1 Governor Weld’s ElectoralOptions
- Case 4.1 Civil War Taxes, Great Depression Taxes, 1980s Tax Reform
- Case 4.2 Legislative Intent
- Case 5.1 Sunset Provisions and Zero-Based Budgeting
- Case 5.2 The Importance of Compromise and Strategic Thinking
- Case 6.1 "Need-Blind" College Admissions
- Case 6.2 Congressional Pay Raise Dilemmas
- Case 6.3 Presidential Veto Stories
- Case 6.4 Aid to Education and the Powell Amendment
- Case 6.5 Not Wasting One’s Vote
- Case 8.1 The Paradox of Cooperation: Nuclear Disarmament in the Cold War and Congressional Pork-Barreling
- Case 9.1 Who Is Represented?
- Case 9.2 The Large and the Small
- Case 9.3 What Does the Evidence Say?
- Case 10.1 Public Goods, Property Rights, and the Radio Spectrum
- Case 10.2 Fishing and the Tragedy of the Commons
- Case 12.1 Campaign Contributions
- Case 12.2 Interest-Group
- Case 13.1 Congressional Oversight: Police Patrols, Fire Alarms, and Fire Extinguishers
- Case 13.2 How to Test Niskanen?
- Case 14.1 FDR and World War II
- Case 14.2 Only Nixon Could Go to China
- Case 15.1 The Best Judges Money Can Buy?
- Case 15.2 Legislators in Robes Revisited
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