Abstract: The Reach of Political Economy – Voters, Candidates, and Parties – Rational Voters and Political Advertising – Candidate Objectives and Electoral Equilibrium – Political Income Redistribution – The Impact of Electoral Laws on Political Parties – Legislatures and Parliaments in Comparative Context – The Organization of Democratic Legislatures – Coalition Government – Does Bicameralism Matter? – The New Separation-of-Powers Approach to American Politics – Pivots – The Political Economy of the US Presidency – Politics, Delegation, and Bureaucracy – The Judiciary and the Role of Law – Constitutionalism – Self-Enforcing Democracy – Constitutions As Expressive Documents – The Protection of Liberty, Property, and Equality – Federalism – Social Choice – A Tool Kit for Voting Theory – Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being – Fair Division – Structure and Coherence in the Political Economy of Public Finance – Political Economy of Fiscal Institutions – Voting and Efficient Public Good Mechanisms – Fiscal Competition – The Non-Politics of Monetary Policy – Political-Economic Cycles – Voting and the Macroeconomy – The Political Economy of Exchange Rates – Capitalism and Democracy – Inequality – Comparative Perspectives on the Role of the State in the Economy – Democratization: Post-Communist Implications – Paths of Economic and Political Development – Authoritarian Government – The Role of the State in Development – Electoral Systems and Economic Policy – Economic Geography – International Political Economy: A Maturing Interdiscipline – National Borders and the Size of Nations – European Integration – Trade, Immigration, and Cross-Border Investment – Central Issues In The Study of International Conflict – Ethnic Mobilization and Ethnic Violence – Democracy, Peace, and War – Anarchy – Economic Methods in Positive Political Theory – Laboratory Experiments – The Tool Kit of Economic Sociology – The Evolutionary Basis of Collective Action – Questions about a Paradox – Politics and Scientific Enquiry: Retrospective on a Half-century – The Future of Analytical Politics – What is Missing from Political Economy – Modeling Party Competition in General Elections – Old Questions and New Answers About Institutions: The Riker Objection Revisited

Keywords: America, anarchy, bicameralism, capitalism, coalition, constitution, context, cycle, democracy, democratization, development, electoral system, equality, Europe, evolution, federalism, government, immigration, international political economy, international relations, judiciary, law, legislature, liberty, parliament, political economy, political theory, politics, power, president, property, protection, public good, regime, social choice, state, violence, voting, war