Ausgabe 1-2/2008
Inhalt (23 Artikel)
Editorial Commentary
Implications of the ‘bread and peace’ model for the 2008 US presidential election
Douglas A. Hibbs Jr.
The European Commission–Appointment, preferences, and institutional relations
Stefan Napel, Mika Widgrén
Public spending interactions and local politics. Empirical evidence from French municipalities
Martial Foucault, Thierry Madies, Sonia Paty
Open Access
Bribery and public procurement: an experimental study
Susanne Büchner, Andreas Freytag, Luis G. González, Werner Güth
Optimal central banker contracts and common agency: a comment
Juan Cristóbal Campoy, Juan Carlos Negrete
What’s in a poll? Incentives for truthful reporting in pre-election opinion surveys
Jeremy Burke, Curtis R. Taylor
Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample
Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Apostolis Philippopoulos, Efthymios Tsionas
Fiscal policy and reelection in Brazilian municipalities
Sergio Naruhiko Sakurai, Naercio Aquino Menezes-Filho
Ideological extremism and electoral design. Multimember versus single member districts
Anthony Bertelli, Lilliard E. Richardson Jr.
Studying the role of political competition in the evolution of government size over long horizons
J. Stephen Ferris, Soo-Bin Park, Stanley L. Winer