1. Tax earmarking, party politics and gubernatorial veto: theory and evidence from US states

   • Jeremy Jackson

   OriginalPaper 20 July 2011 Pages: 1 - 18

2. The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization”

   • William Pyle
   • Laura Solanko

   OriginalPaper 20 July 2011 Pages: 19 - 41

3. Inequality in developing economies: the role of institutional development

   • Adalgiso Amendola
   • Joshy Easaw
   • Antonio Savoia

   OriginalPaper 03 August 2011 Pages: 43 - 60

4. Power indices in large voting bodies

   • Dennis Leech

   OriginalPaper 10 August 2011 Pages: 61 - 79

5. Independent central banks, regime type, and fiscal performance: the case of post-communist countries

   • Cristina Bodea

   OriginalPaper 02 September 2011 Pages: 81 - 107

6. Satisfaction with democracy and collective action problems: the case of the environment

   • Martin Halla
   • Friedrich G. Schneider
   • Alexander F. Wagner

   OriginalPaper 24 August 2011 Pages: 109 - 137

7. Policy-seeking candidates who value the valence attributes of the winner

   • James Adams
   • Samuel Merrill III

   OriginalPaper 13 August 2011 Pages: 139 - 161

8. Do pro-market economic reforms drive human rights violations? An empirical assessment, 1981–2006

   • Indra de Soysa
   • Krishna Chaitanya Vadlammanati

   OriginalPaper 06 August 2011 Pages: 163 - 187