Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rational Choice and Politics / Roger D. Congleton -- Spatial voting models of party competition in two dimensions / James F. Adams -- Spatial social choice / Norman Schofield -- Economic voting / Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mary Stegmaier -- Valence politics / Haldun Evrenk -- The Study of Strategic Voting / Andrâe Blais, Arianna Degan -- Turnout: Why do voters vote? / Serguei Kaniovski -- Expressive voting / Alan Hamlin, Colin Jennings -- Altruism and political participation / Richard Jankowski -- Social Embeddedness and Rational Turnout / Carole Jean Uhlaner -- Information cues and rational ignorance / Shaun Bowler, Stephen P. Nicholson -- Choosing among Governments / Alan Hamlin -- Campaign Finance / Thomas Stratmann -- Primaries, conventions, and other methods for nominating candidates: How do they matter? / Gilles Serra -- Logrolling and coalitions / Anthony J. McGann -- Collective action / Jac C. Heckelman -- Rent Seeking: The resource cost of influence / Arye L. Hillman, Ngo Van Long -- The structure of contests and the extent of dissipation / Karl Wèarneryd -- The Political Economy of Rent Creation and Rent Extraction / Roger D. Congleton -- Empirical evidence on rent seeking costs / Ignacio del Rosal -- 'The Bureaucracy' as an Interest Group / Patrick Dunleavy -- Interest groups and regulatory capture / William F. Shughart II, Diana W. Thomas -- Public Choice: Early Contributions / Dennis C. Mueller -- Corruption / Toke Aidt -- The Political Economy of Trust / Christian Bj²rnskov -- Contested Political Persuasion / Stergios Skaperdas, Samarth Vaidya -- Stochastic Process Models of Preference Change / Michel Regenwetter, Yung-Fong Hsu -- Leadership as Persuasion / Benjamin E. Hermalin -- Public choice and social democracy / Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard -- Fairness concepts / Christian Klamler -- Social contract vs. Invisible hand: Agreeing to solve solcial dilemmas / Viktor J. Vanberg -- Utilitarianism as a criterion for state action / Nicolaus Tideman, Florenz Plassmann -- From Paired Comparisons and Cycles to Arrow's Theorem / Donald G. Saari -- Public Choice and Happiness / Bruno Frey, Alois Stutzer -- Kantianism and Political Institutions / Geoffrey Brennan, Hartmut Kliemt -- Public Choice and Libertarianism / Peter Boettke, Ennio E. Piano -- Supreme Values, Conflict, and Governance / Peter Bernholz -- Fair Division in Dispute Resolution / Steven J. Brams -- Fair Division in Allocating Cabinet Ministries / Steven J. Brams -- Manipulation / Charles Plott -- Institution-induced stability / Kenneth A. Shepsle -- Voting Power / Stefan Napel -- Aggregation of information by binary voting rules / Shmuel Nitzan, Jacob Paroush -- Political Choices in One Dimension: Theory / Bernard Grofman -- Political Choices in One Dimension: Applications / Bernard Grofman.

The two volume Oxford Handbook of Public Choice provides a comprehensive overview of the Public Choice literature. Volume 1 covers rational choice models of elections, interest groups, rent seeking, and public choice contributions to normative political economy. It begins with introductory chapters on rational choice politics, the founding of public choice, and the evaluation and selection of constitutions.

Specialized.

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