1. Reconsidering the principal components of central bank independence: The more the merrier?

   • King Banaian
   • Richard C.K. Burdekin
   • Thomas D. Willett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

2. Majoritarian logic

   • J.M. Buchanan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 21

3. A neo-Downsian model of group-oriented voting and racial backlash

   • Amihai Glazer
   • Bernard Grofman
   • Guillermo Owen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 34

4. Endogenous elections, electoral budget cycles and Canadian provincial governments

   • Bradford G. Reid

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 48

5. Hangin' ten: The common-pool resource problem of surfing

   • Robert Rider

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64

6. Observed choice and optimism in estimating the effects of government policies

   • Eric Rasmusen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 92

7. Entry barriers and medical board funding autonomy

   • Shirley Svorny
   • Eugenia Froedge Toma

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 106

8. Corruption and government size: A disaggregated analysis

   • Rajeev K. Goel
   • Michael A. Nelson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 120

9. Legislative systems with absolute party discipline: Implications for the agency theory approach to the constituent-legislator link

   • Neil Longley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 141

10. Persistence in government spending fluctuations: New evidence on the displacement effect

    • Brian Goff

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 157

11. Does the median voter model explain the size of government?: Evidence from the states

    • Miguel Gouveia
    • Neal A. Masia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 177

12. The rational voter paradox revisited

    • Emory Peters

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 196

13. Patrick Riley, Leibniz' universal jurisprudence: Justice as the charity of the wise. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. xiii + 338 pages. $39.95 (cloth).

    • Mikhail G. Filippov

    BookReview Pages: 197 - 200

14. Jerry L. Mashaw, Greed, chaos, and governance: Using public choice to improve public law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. ix + 231 pages. $28.00 (cloth).

    • Daniel Baracskay

    BookReview Pages: 200 - 204

15. Nicholas Mercuro and Steven G. Medema, Economics and the law: From Posner to post-modernism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x + 235 pages. $29.95 (cloth).

    • Jim Chen

    BookReview Pages: 205 - 209

16. Mark Irving Lichbach, The cooperator's dilemma. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. xx + 309 pages. $39.50 (cloth).

    • Stephen Knack

    BookReview Pages: 209 - 212

17. William F. Shughart II (Ed.), Taxing choice: The predatory politics of fiscal discrimination. An Independent Institute Book. Foreword by Paul W. McCracken. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997. xv + 396 pages. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

    • Robert D. Tollison

    BookReview Pages: 212 - 213

18. Dani Rodrik, Has globalization gone too far? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997. xi + 108 pages. $20.95 (cloth).

    • Paul Pecorino

    BookReview Pages: 214 - 217