Political Economy Research Group. Papers in Political Economy
The Political Economy Research Group was established in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Western Ontario in 1988. It focused on the application of economic models and methods to the study of political processes and institutions; the economic impact of political processes and institutions; the influence of economic factors on the formation of public policy and on institutional change; the politics of economic policy making; and the political, social, and economic effects of public policy.
Submissions from 2005
The Renewal Clause in the Churchill Falls Contract: The Origins of a Coming Crisis, James P. Feehan and Melvin Baker
Submissions from 1999
Caring About Sunk Costs: A Behavioral Solution to the Hold-up Problem, Lorne Carmichael and W. Bentley MacLeod
Some Regions Are More Equal Than Others: Evidence on the Sources of Regional Income Differentials from the Canadian Labour Market Before 1930, J. C. Herbert Emery
Searching for Keynes, J. Stephen Ferris and Stanley L. Winer
What Economists Know About Canada's Exchange Rate Regime, David Laidler
Submissions from 1998
Electoral Competition under the Threat of Political Unrest, Matthew Ellman and Leonard Wantchekon
The Political Enterprise and the Choice of Extremist Policies, Mario Ferrero
Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: An Overview, David Laidler
Nations, States, Unions: Institutional Design and State-Breaking in the Developed West, Hudson Meadwell
Information, Civil Liberties, and the Political Economy of Witch-hunts, Vai-Lam Mui
India in the United Nations: The First Years, Balachandra Rajan
Polling for Votes: CCF and Liberal Political Marketing, 1940-1945, Daniel J. Robinson
Rotten Altruists, Saccharine Altruists, and Saints: Altruism and Social Optimality, Martin Zelder
Submissions from 1997
The Empty Wealth of Nations, Robert H. Frank
Predation and Moral Decay, Herschel I. Grossman and Minseong Kim
Let's Agree That All Dictatorships Are Equally Bad, Uzi Segal
The Razor's Edge: Distortions, Incremental Reform and the Theory of the Second Best in the People's Republic of China, Alwyn Young
Submissions from 1996
Why Do People Vote? An Experiment in Rationality, André Blais and Robert Young
What Generation X Can Tell Us about the U.S.-Canadian Unemployment Rate Gap, Audra J. Bowlus
Game Theory and Emotions, Steven J. Brams
The Performance of Performance Standards: The Effects of JTPA Performance Standards on Efficiency, Equity and Participant Outcomes, James J. Heckman and Jeffrey Smith
Do National Borders Matter for Quebec's Trade?, John F. Helliwell
Fiscal and Political Decentralizations in China - A Critique of the Current Fiscal Reform Efforts, Yasheng Huang
Emerging Consociationalism: Prospects for Power Sharing in Northern Ireland, Colin Knox
Paying the Bill for Goulash-Communism: Hungarian Development and Macro Stabilization in a Political-Economy Perspective, János Kornai
Inflation Control and Monetary Policy Rules, David Laidler
European Integration and the State, Gary Marks, Liesbet Hooghe, and Kermit Blank
Homeowner Association Private Governments in the American Political System, Evan McKenzie
Asymmetrical Federalism: Spain in Comparative Perspective, Luis Moreno
Does Anti-Regime Action under Communist Rule Affect Political Participation after the Fall? Results of a Panel Study in East Germany, Karl-Dieter Opp
The Political Economy of Aggregate Budget Constraints or the A, B, C's of Industrial Restructuring in Russia, Christof Rühl, Kenneth Serwin, and Michal Kejak
Why Do People Support Dictators? (Popularity versus Political Exchange), Adi Schnytzer and Janez Šušteršič
The Clash of Values in Civil Society, Richard Steinberg
Submissions from 1995
Campaign Contributions and Access, David Austen-Smith
The Decline of the Swedish Model, Jan-Erik Lane
The Limits of Rent-Seeking: Why Protectionists Become Free Traders, Michael Lusztig
Social Security in the ASEAN: Is There a Southeast Asian Model of Welfare Capitalism?, M. Ramesh
The New World Order, Incorporated: The Rise of Business and the Decline of the Nation-State, Vivien A. Schmidt
Submissions from 1994
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Economic Philosophy Among North American Legislators, Bob Altemeyer
Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women's Household Work, Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis
Do Campaign Donations Alter How Politicians Vote?, Stephen G. Bronars and John R. Lott
Information Aggregation and Economic Development: The Case of East Asia, Jose Edgardo Campos and Hilton L. Root
Central Banks: Independence, Mandates and Accountability, John W. Crow
Entry Fees, Firing Threats, and Work Incentives: Capitalist and Labor-Managed Firms in Market Equilibrium, Gregory K. Dow
Invasion from the Right: The Reform Party in the 1993 Canadian Election, Tom Flanagan
Politicians, Incentives and Policy Instruments: Theory and Evidence, Réjean Landry and Marc Pesant
Putting Cruelty First, Kanan Makiya
To Have and Have Not: Explaining Inequality in Rural China, Jonathan Morduch and Terry Sicular
Cadre Networks, Information Diffusion, and Market Production in Coastal China, Jean C. Oi
On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism, Brendan O'Leary
Privatization and Corporate Control, Christof Rühl
Deconstruction: Whence It Came and Whither It Tendeth, Leon Surette
Local Governments as Industrial Corporations: An Organizational Analysis of China's Transitional Economy, Andrew G. Walder
How Do Peaceful Secessions Happen?, Robert Young
Submissions from 1993
Reforming Electoral Democracy: Proposals, Politics and Prospects, Peter Aucoin
Stealing the Emperor's Clothes: Deficit Offloading and National Standards in Health Care, Paul Boothe and Barbara Johnson
Legislative Committees as Loyalty-Generating Institutions, David C. Coker and W. Mark Crain
Where Does Economic Development Really Come From? Constitutional Rule Among the Modern Sioux and Apache, Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt
Stock Market Performance and Elections: Made-in-Canada Effects?, Stephen R. Foerster
Institutional Morality, Russell Hardin
Belgium: From Regionalism to Federalism, Liesbet Hooghe
Monetarism - The Unfinished Business, David Laidler
How Newfoundland Veterans Became Canadian Veterans: A Study in Bureaucracy and Benefit, Peter Neary
The Veterans Charter and Canadian Women Veterans of World War II, Peter Neary and Shaun Brown
New Zealand's Monetary Policy Experiment, Peter Nicholl
A Model of Political Competition with Citizen-Candidates, Martin Osborne and Al Slivinski
Endogenous Property Rights: The 'Coase Assumption' and Smoking Regulation, Ingrid Peters-Fransen
Public Finance and China's Economic Reforms, Terry Sicular
From Expressionism to Kitsch: Ethnic and Intergenerational Conflict and the Rise of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe
Submissions from 1992
Weathering the Storm: Associational Governance in a Globalizing Era, William D. Coleman
Rational Ignorance, Rational Expectations, and Fiscal Illusion, Roger D. Congleton
Two Level Games and the Political Economy of Adjustment: Comparing Australian and Canadian Approaches Towards the Cairns Group and Agricultural Trade in the Uruguay Round, Andrew F. Cooper and Richard Higgott
A First Nations Province, Thomas J. Courchene and Lisa M. Powell
In Search of a Compromise in Canada: Constitutional Negotiation and Game Theory, Louis M. Imbeau
The State, Territorial Minorities and International Regimes, Michael Keating
Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989, Timur Kuran
Submissions from 1991
Government Domestic Debt and the Risk of Default: A Political-Economic Model of the Strategic Role of Debt, Philippe Aghion and Patrick Bolton
The Non-State-Non-Market Component of the Social Order and the Production of Social Capital, Raymond Breton
Winner-Take-All Markets, Robert H. Frank and Phillip J. Cook
The Consequences of Religious Market Structure: Adam Smith and the Economics of Religion, Laurence R. Iannaccone
Regulation and the Contestability of Markets: Some Evidence from the History of Transportation and Communications in Canada, John N. McDougall
Constitutional Rights, Dennis Mueller
Can Repressive Regimes be Moderated Through Foreign Aid?, Filip Palda
The National Bases of Regime Formation: The Challenge of Supervising International Capital Markets, Louis Pauly
Redressing Inequality in the Post-Apartheid South African Economy, Richard C. Porter
From Competitive Eqilibrium to Democratic Equilibrium: Has the Analogy Been Fruitful?, Pierre Salmon and Alain Wolfelsperger
Plan, Market and Inflation: Potential Problems with China's Two-Track System, Terry Sicular
Tectonic Policies and Public Choice, Robert Young
Submissions from 1990
Why Are Stabilizations Delayed?, Alberto Alesina and Allan Drazen
The Debate Over Electoral Systems, André Blais
The Medical Malpractice Crisis: A Comparative Empirical Perspective, Donald Dewees, Michael Trebilcock, and Peter Coyte
Energy Politics in Canada, 1980-81: Threat Power in a Sequential Game, Patrick James
Taking Interests Seriously, Doug Long
Debt and Tariffs: An Empirical Investigation of the Evolution of Revenue Systems, Stanley Winer and Walter Hettich
The Tinpot and the Totalitarian: A Simple Economic Theory of Dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe
Why Government Bureaucracies Are Efficient and Not Too Large: The Endogeneity of Institutional Design, Donald Wittman