edited by Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine,
and Donald Wittman, University of California, Santa Cruz
(Vol. 2 in the Agathon series on representation)

An examination of the Madisonian approach to institutional design as set forth in The Federalist Papers from the point of view of leading contemporary theorists of the "public choice" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy.

"...the most ambitious attempt to date to reread The Federalist in the light of modern social science."
--Publius, Summer, 1991

CONTENTS
The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism: An Overview (Bernard Grofman)
Part I. The Madisonian Vision and the Theory of Public Choice: Comparisons and Contrasts: Introduction (Bernard Grofman); 1. Madison's Theory of Contrasts (Bruce E. Cain and W. T. Jones, California Institute of Technology); 2. Publius and Public Choice (Thomas Schwartz, UCLA); 3. Electoral Institutions in The Federalist Papers: A Contemporary Perspective (Henry Chappell, Jr., University of South Carolina, and William Keech, University of North Carolina); 4. Restraining the Passions of the Public (Benjamin Page, Northwestern University, and Robert Shapiro, Columbia University)
Part II. Optimal Institutions: Introduction (Donald Wittman); 5. The Constitution as an Optimal Social Contract: A Transaction Cost Analysis of The Federalist Papers (Donald Wittman); 6. Stability and Efficiency in a Separation-of-Powers Constitutional System (Gary Miller, Washington University, and Thomas H. Hammond, Michigan State University); 7. Why a Constitution? (Russell Hardin, University of Chicago)
Part III. Power: Checks and Balances: Introduction (Bernard Grofman); 8. Are the Two Houses of Congress Really Coequal? (Steven J. Brams, New York University); 9. Assessing the Power of the Supreme Court (John R. Chamberlin, University of Michigan); 10. Checks, Balances and Bureaucratic Usurpation of Congressional Power (Thomas Schwartz); 11. The Distribution of Power in the Federal Government: Perspectives from The Federalist Papers--A Critique (Mark P. Petracca, University of California, Irvine)
Part IV. The Ratification Debate: Introduction (Donald Wittman); 12. Public Choice Analysis and the Ratification of the Constitution (Robert McGuire, University of California, Davis, and Robert Ohsfeldt, Arizona State University); 13. Constitutional Conflict in State and Nation (Cheryl Eavey, Florida State University, and Gary Miller); 14. The Strategy of Ratification (Evelyn Fink, Dartmouth College, and William Riker, University of Rochester)

References and Author Index, Subject Index

296 pages, 1989, (cloth) 0-87586-084-2 $48.00
(paper) 0-87586-085-0 $21.00

"Specialists in election law and politics will want to buy and absorb this book....no better survey of the meaning and intention of the Court in Bandemer and the constitutional terrain it has shaped for redistricting in the 90s."
--The Law and Politics Review, March 1991

CONTENTS

Introduction: 1. Unresolved Issues in Partisan Gerrymandering Litigation (Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine); 2. The Unfinished Reapportionment Revolution (Gordon E. Baker, University of California, Santa Barbara).

What Does Bandemer Mean? 3. Toward a Coherent Theory of Gerrymandering: Bandemer and Thornburg (Bernard Grofman); 4. Bandemer's Gap: Gerrymandering and Equal Protection (Daniel Lowenstein, University of California, Los Angeles); 5. Perspectives on Davis v. Bandemer: Views of the Practitioner, Theorist, and Reformer (Bruce Cain, California Institute of Technology).

How to Measure Partisan Gerrymandering: 6. Establishing a Statewide Electoral Effects Baseline (Charles Backstrom, University of Minnesota; Leonard Robins, Roosevelt University; and Scott Eller, Attorney, Best and Flanagan); 7. The Swing Ratio as a Measure of Partisan Gerrymandering (Richard Niemi, University of Rochester); 8. Detecting Gerrymandering (Michael McDonald, SUNY Binghamton, and Richard Engstrom, University of New Orleans); 9. The "Totality of Circumstances" Approach (Gordon E. Baker); 10. A Geographer's Perspective (Richard Morrill, University of Washington); 11. Partisan Gerrymandering: A Political Problem Without Judicial Solution (Peter Schuck, Yale Law School).

Applications: Indiana: 12. Compactness and the 1980s Districts in the Indiana State House: Evidence of Political Gerrymandering? (Richard Niemi and John Wilkerson, University of Rochester); 13. Majority-Win Percentages: An Approach to the Votes-Seats Relationship in Light of Davis v. Bandemer (Richard Niemi and Stephen Wright, University of Rochester).

Applications: California: 14. Comparing the Compactness of California Congressional Districts under Three Different Plans, 1980, 1982, and 1984 (Thomas Hofeller, Republican National Committee, and Bernard Grofman); 15. Determining the Predictability of Voting Patterns in California Elections, 1978-1984 (Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego, and Bernard Grofman); 16. Lessons from the California 1973 Masters' Plan (Gordon Baker).

References and Author Index, Court Cases, Subject Index

360 pages, 1990 , 0-87586-092-3, $42.00

"Policy studies, major changes within Congress in the 1970s, and the Reagan administration's dominance of Congress in 1981 have given scholars grounds for reconsidering what they think they know about Congress and public policy and for placing those understandings in more theoretical and historical contexts. Taken as a set, the articles in [this book] emphasize the importance of political power and influence as shaped by elections and the internal processes of Congress in determining policy outcomes....[a] very useful effort to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the Congress and policy change."
--The Journal of Politics, Fall, 1987

"...a happy mix of studies, approaches, and levels of analysis.... While different analysts would doubtless emphasize things somewhat differently, the research strategy embodied in this volume--that of commissioning experts to reconsider their subject matter in light of a given dependent variable (in this case, policy change)--is extremely valuable."
--American Political Science Review, September, 1987

CONTENTS
Part I. A Theory of Congressional Change
1. A Theory of Congressional Cycles: Solving the Puzzle of Change (Lawrence C. Dodd)
Part II. The Electoral Sources of Policy Change in Congress
2. Electoral Realignments in the U.S. House of Representatives (David W. Brady, Rice University)
3. The Politics and Policy of Race in Congress (Edward G. Carmines, Indiana University, and James A. Stimson, University of Houston)
4. Elections and the Potential for Policy Change in Congress: The House of Representatives (Gerald C. Wright, Jr.)
Part III. From Electioneering to Policy Making: Learning and Adjustment
5. Adjusting to the U.S. Senate (Richard F. Fenno, Jr., University of Rochester)
6. Campaign Learning, Congressional Behavior, and Policy Change (Marjorie Randon Hershey, Indiana University)
Part IV. Leadership, Rules, and the Congressional Policy Process
7. Party Leadership and Policy Change (Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Riverside)
8. Blocking Coalitions and Policy Change (Roberta Hertzberg, Indiana University)
9. Logrolling in an Institutional Context: A Case Study of Food Stamp Legislation (John Ferejohn, Stanford University)
Part V. Pulling the Pieces Together
10. Congress and Policy Change: Issues, Answers, and Prospects (Leroy N. Rieselbach)
Author Index

304 pages, 1986, (cloth) 0-87586-076-1, $48.00

(paper), 0-87586-077-X, $21.00

"...an impressive addition to an area which has been discussed so exhaustively in the past....[T]here is no question that it will be one of the outstanding works to serve as a basis for further study of the Convention. Few commentators have blended together so nicely the use of empirical methods and traditional analysis and interpretation, and few have balanced so well the consideration of both philosophical arguments and state and regional material and power interests....a first-rate addition to the literature which will be an essential part of all future efforts to understand the Constitutional Convention."
--Social Science Quarterly, December, 1989

"...clearly the most technically sophisticated analysis of the Constitutional Convention yet to appear."--William and Mary Quarterly, October, 1989

"Anyone who wishes to speak intelligently about what the framers intended in 1787 will have to confront...Jillson's roll call analysis of the Convention."
--American Political Science Review, March, 1990

CONTENTS
1. Perspectives on the Federal Convention of 1787
2. Debate, Deadlock, and Issue Resolution in the Convention 3. James Madison and the Origins of the Virginia Plan
4. The Nature of Government in the New Republic
5. The Representation Question: Madison and His Opponents
6. The Role of the Executive in Republican Government
7. Localist Periphery and Nationalist Center: On Restraining Government
8. Small State Fears and the States' Rights Caucus
9. The Brearley Committee Report and a New Northern Majority
10. Summary and Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix A: The Data
Appendix B: The Virginia Plan
Appendix C: The New Jersey Plan
Appendix D: Committee of Detail Report
Appendix E: The Constitution of the United States
Index

256 pages, 1988, (cloth), 0-87586-081-8, $36.00

(paper), 0-87586-082-6, $18.00

"...insightful and in some cases provocative discussions of important issues in the social sciences."
--Contemporary Sociology, January 1991

"...anyone concerned with the state of social science disciplines should find these essays of interest."
--Journal of Politics, May 1990

The papers in this volume were commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

CONTENTS
Preface (Jerome Clubb, Executive Director, ICPSR)
Introduction (Heinz Eulau)
1. Toward Cumulative Knowledge: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., University of Washington)
Comment: Progress in Research Methodology: Theory, Technology, Training (Herbert F. Weisberg, Ohio State University)
2. A Strange Case of Identity Denied: American History as Social Science (Allan G. Bogue, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Comment: Time Is on the Historian's Side (Eric Monkkonen, UCLA)
3. When Social Science Findings Conflict (Philip E. Converse, University of Michigan)
Comment: On Conflict Resolution (Karl Taeuber, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
4. What We Know, What We Say We Know: Discrepancies Between Warranted and Unwarranted Conclusions (Norval D. Glenn, University of Texas, Austin)
Comment: Causal Inferences: Can Caution Have Limits? (Susan Welch, University of Nebraska)
5. Research Life as a Collection of Intersecting Probability Distributions (Warren E. Miller, Arizona State University)
Comment: Innovation: Individuals, Ideas, and Institutions (Ivor Crewe, University of Essex, England)
Comment: Infrastructures for Comparative Political Research (Max Kaase, University of Mannheim, Germany)

188 pages, 1989, (cloth),0-87586-090-7, $36.00

(paper), 0-87586-091-5, $18.00

"...truly an intellectual tour de force. Even the reader who doesn't agree with all of Warwick's conclusions can't fail to recognize what a tremendous contribution this book makes to the study of culture and political-economic change."
--American Political Science Review, June 1991

"...an important work of analysis and synthesis, presenting a well-researched and largely convincing account of the British experience."
--Canadian Journal of Politics, April 1991

CONTENTS
Foreword (Harry Eckstein)
Preface
Part A. Problems and Perspectives
1. The Dilemma of Culturalism
2. The Alternatives to Culturalism
Part B. Issues and Answers
3. Was Britain Different? Protestantism, Property Rights, and State Power in the Rise of Modern Capitalism
4. Did Britain Change? An Inquiry into the Causes of Economic Decline
5. Why Has Britain Persisted? The Uncertain Bases of Political Support in the British Polity
Part C. Reprise
6. Some Lessons from the Issues

Bibliography, Author Index , Subject Index

266 pages, 1990, 0-87586-087-7, $36.00

"This fine collection of papers dealing with the effects of economic variables on electoral behaviour and election outcomes...will be of particular interest to specialists in the study of elections, but will also be valuable to students of political economy and comparative politics more generally.... [T]he editors...are to be congratulated on assembling a quality selection of some of the best and most recent work on an important topic in the field of voting and elections. The goals set out in their Introduction--to sketch the state of knowledge about the relationship of economics to elections, and to identify problems at the frontier of research in the area--have been largely achieved."
--Canadian Journal of Politics--

CONTENTS

Introduction: Economic Conditions and Electoral Outcomes in Trans-National Perspective (Michael S. Lewis-Beck and Heinz Eulau)
1. Public Attitudes Toward Economic Conditions and Their Impact on Government Behavior (Friedrich Schneider, Aarhus University, Denmark)
2. Party Strategies, World Demand, and Unemployment in Britain and the United States (James E. Alt, Washington University)
3. Perceptions of Economic Performance and Voting Behavior in the 1983 General Election in Britain (Paul Whiteley, University of Bristol, England)
4. Political Change and Stability of the Popularity Function: The French General Election of 1981 (Jean-Dominique Lafay, University of Poitiers, France)
5. Economic Concerns in Italian Electoral Behavior: Toward a Rational Electorate? (Paolo Bellucci, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
6. Economics, Democracy, and Spanish Elections (Thomas D. Lancaster, Emory University)
7. Economic Effects on the Vote in Norway (Arthur H. Miller, University of Michigan, and Ola Listhaug, University of Trondheim, Norway)
8. Economic Self-Interest and the Vote: Evidence and Meaning (Stanley Feldman, University of Kentucky)
9. Economics, Politics, and the Cycle of Presidential Popularity (Helmut Norpoth, SUNY, Stony Brook)
10. The Voter as Juror: Attributing Responsibility for Economic Conditions (Mark Peffley, Drake University)
11. A Retrospective on Retrospective Voting (D. Roderick Kiewiet and Douglas Rivers, California Institute of Technology)
12. Economic Determinants and Electoral Outcomes: Some Personal Observations (Marie France Toinet, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris)
Author Index

256 pages, 1985, (cloth) 0-87586-071-0, $36.00

(paper) 0-87586-072-1, $18.00

"Political economy is coming of age again, thanks to studies such as this. These eight neatly integrated essays by ten European and North American economists and political scientists were prepared for and revised after a National Science Foundation-sponsored conference. After an initial essay summarizing the evolution of political economy, three chapters focus on the short-run politically rooted business cycle, combining classical, Marxist, and mathematical approaches with normative, practical reforms. Wage dynamics, the underground economy, and the inflation-unemployment trade-off's political implications are discussed. Next, a long-run analysis of the polity's effect on the economy via government intervention and incomes policies is followed with essays examining the economy's effect on political behavior at three levels, beginning with individual voter decisions on the effectiveness of economic management: overall economic well-being is seen as more important to voters than their own economic situation, a comforting thought to Jeffersonian rationalists. The roles of political parties, socioeconomic classes, and inequality in determining the political response to economic changes are explored at the next level; and the final essay tests explanations for presidential popularity, as found in the theories of rising expectations and of uncertainty concerning future economic conditions. References and index are abundant and useful....Useful from lower division undergraduate level onward." --CHOICE, May, 1984

CONTENTS
1. The Development of Political Economy (Kristen R. Monroe)
2. Politics, Economics, and the Underground Economy (Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich)
3. The Political Dimensions of Wage Dynamics (Martin Paldam, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
4. Inflation, Unemployment, and Electoral Terms: When Can Reform of Political Institutions Improve Macroeconomic Policy? (William R. Keech, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Carl P. Simon, University of Michigan)
5. Can Income Policies Work? (R. Robert Russell, New York University)
6. Politics and Economics in Everyday Life (Donald R. Kinder and Walter R. Mebane, Jr., University of Michigan)
7. Parties and Classes in the Political Response to Economic Conditions (M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara)
8. Economic Expectations, Economic Uncertainty, and Presidential Popularity (Kristen R. Monroe, and Maurice D. Levi, University of British Columbia)
Index

250 pages, 1983, (cloth) 0-87586-063-X, $42.00

(paper) 0-87586-062-1, $18.00

Twelve essays adapted from papers originally given at the Lasswell Symposium at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. The papers selected for this volume were those that focused on political institutions and behavior, but they do not employ any single approach to the study of the science of politics. Taken as a whole, they illustrate the multiplicity of interpretations that are presently given to the common enterprise.

CONTENTS
Part I. The Science of Political Science
1. Introduction: The Science of Politics and Political Change (Herbert F. Weisberg)
2. Political Science as Science (Gerald H. Kramer)
3. The Science of Politics and Its Limits (Duncan MacRae, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Part II. The Science of Political Institutions
4. Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions (Kenneth H. Shepsle, Washington University, St. Louis)
5. The Cycles of Legislative Change: Building a Dynamic Theory (Lawrence C. Dodd, Indiana University)
6. Presidential and Executive Studies: The One, The Few, and the Many (Bert A. Rockman, University of Pittsburgh)
7. The Social Science of Judicial Politics (James L. Gibson, University of Houston--University Park)
8. The Positive Theory of Hierarchies (Gary J. Miller, Michigan State University, and Terry M. Moe, Stanford University)
Part III. The Science of Political Behavior
9. Structural Estimation with Limited Variables (Charles H. Franklin, Washington University, St. Louis, and John E. Jackson, University of Michigan)
10. The Dynamics of Public Opinion (Richard G. Niemi, University of Rochester)
11. Choice, Context and Consequence: Beaten and Unbeaten Paths Toward a Science of Electoral Behavior (Paul Allen Beck, Florida State University)
12. Model Choice in Political Science: The Case of Voting Behavior Research, 1946-1975 (Herbert F. Weisberg)

Author Index

320 pages, 1986, (cloth) 0-87586-066-4, $48.00

(paper) 0-87586-075-3, $21.00

The motivating thesis of this book is that political opinions and behavior of individuals cannot be explained apart from the environments within which they occur. Individual characteristics alone do not determine political actions and opinions. Rather, political behavior must be understood in terms of the actor's relationship to the environment, and the environmental factors that impinge on individual choice.

"An important and stimulating volume...deserves very careful reading not only for its empirical and theoretical contributions, but also in its role as a sound criticism of a considerable amount of social science research. The implications of his findings and assertions go far beyond the specific communities he studies. Huckfeldt forces a reexamination of underlying assumptions and theoretical constructs."

--The Journal of Politics, February, 1987

CONTENTS
1. An Introduction to Politics in Context
2. Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Contexts
3. Contextual Constraints on Friendship Choice
4. Individual and Contextual Bases of Partisan Attachment
5. The Contextual Basis for Ethnic Politics
6. Neighborhood Influences on White Flight and Residential Satisfaction
7. The Social Context of Political Participation
8. Assimilation, Conflict, and the Mechanisms of Contextual Influence
9. Assimilation, Conflict, and Tipping Points
10. Conclusions and Consequences
Appendix A: The Data Base for This Study
Appendix B: Methodological Pitfalls and Goals
Appendix C: The Model of Friendship Choice
Appendix D: The Logit Model
Notes
References
Index

200 pages, 1986, (cloth) 0-85867-067-2, $38.00