▪ Abstract Policy makers in democracies have strong partisan and electoral incentives
regarding the amount, nature, and timing of economic-policy activity. Given these incentives …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in
the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in …

Accountability is a core concept of public administration, yet disagreement about its meaning
is masked by consensus on its importance and desirability. This article proposes a five‐part …

This article presents an empirical analysis of the National Labor Relations Board, focusing
on the balance the agency strikes between the interests of business and labor. It is oriented …

Plans for the European Monetary Union (EMU) are based on the conventional postulate that
increasing the independence of the central bank can reduce inflation without any real …

A principal-agent perspective has been employed in recent studies to rediscover the
importance of democratic hierarchies in shaping public bureaucratic outputs. I test the …

This article introduces a theoretical framework and an econometric methodology for
analyzing the increasingly important effects of the national government on the federal …

We investigate the channels through which partisan influence from a Presidential
administration could affect monetary policy-making. Influence could be a result of direct …

How have the American presidency, the British premiership and the German chancellorship
changed over the last half-century? Has there been convergence or divergence in the …