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Contents PART 1 JANUARY 2006 Articles STEVEN LUKES, Liberal Democratic Torture THOMAS PLUMPER, CHRISTINA J. SCHNEIDER AND VERA E. TROEGER, The Politics of EU Eastern Enlargement: Evidence from a Heckman Selection Model Scott C. JAMES, Patronage Regimes and American Party Development from “ Age of Jackson’ to the Progressive Era GEOFFREY C. LAYMAN AND JOHN C. GREEN, Wars and Rumours of Wars: Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behaviour CHRISTOPHER J. ANDERSON AND SILVIA M. MENDES, Learning to Lose: Election Outcomes, Democratic Experience and Political Protest Potential Luis FERNANDO MEDINA, Party Discipline with Legislative Initiative FRANCOIS GELINEAU AND KAREN L. REMMER, Political Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: The Argentine Experience, 1983-2001 KEVIN ARCENEAUX, Do Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis Notes and comments JOHN PARKINSON, Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Demo- cracy JAMES S. FISHKIN AND ROBERT C. LUSKIN, Broadcasts of Deliberative Polls: Aspirations and Effects JOHN PARKINSON, Of Scale and Straw Men: A Reply to Fishkin and Luskin PART 2 APRIL 2006 Articles SONA NADENICHEK GOLDER, Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation in Parliamentary Democracies ROBERT E. GOODIN AND CHRISTIAN LIsT, Special Majorities Rationalized ADAM D. SHEINGATE, Promotion Versus Precaution: The Evolution of Bio- technology Policy in the United States Contents PART 1 JANUARY 2006 Articles STEVEN LUKES, Liberal Democratic Torture THOMAS PLUMPER, CHRISTINA J. SCHNEIDER AND VERA E. TROEGER, The Politics of EU Eastern Enlargement: Evidence from a Heckman Selection Model Scott C. JAMES, Patronage Regimes and American Party Development from “ Age of Jackson’ to the Progressive Era GEOFFREY C. LAYMAN AND JOHN C. GREEN, Wars and Rumours of Wars: Contexts of Cultural Conflict in American Political Behaviour CHRISTOPHER J. ANDERSON AND SILVIA M. MENDES, Learning to Lose: Election Outcomes, Democratic Experience and Political Protest Potential Luis FERNANDO MEDINA, Party Discipline with Legislative Initiative FRANCOIS GELINEAU AND KAREN L. REMMER, Political Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: The Argentine Experience, 1983-2001 KEVIN ARCENEAUX, Do Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis Notes and comments JOHN PARKINSON, Rickety Bridges: Using the Media in Deliberative Demo- cracy JAMES S. FISHKIN AND ROBERT C. LUSKIN, Broadcasts of Deliberative Polls: Aspirations and Effects JOHN PARKINSON, Of Scale and Straw Men: A Reply to Fishkin and Luskin PART 2 APRIL 2006 Articles SONA NADENICHEK GOLDER, Pre-Electoral Coalition Formation in Parliamentary Democracies ROBERT E. GOODIN AND CHRISTIAN LIsT, Special Majorities Rationalized ADAM D. SHEINGATE, Promotion Versus Precaution: The Evolution of Bio- technology Policy in the United States page JOHN GEER AND RICHARD R. LAu, Filling in the Blanks: A New Method for Estimating Campaign Effects 269 G. BINGHAM POWELL Jr, Election Laws and Representative Governments: Beyond Votes and Seats JONATHAN KRIECKHAUS, Democracy and Economic Growth: How Regional Context Influences Regime Effects ANTHONY MUGHAN AND PAMELA PAXTON, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment, Policy Preferences and Populist Party Voting in Australia TAT YAN KONG, Globalization and Labour Market Reform: Patterns of Response in Northeast Asia PART 3—JULY 2006 Articles DAVID RUEDA, Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies: Insiders, Outsiders and the Politics of Employment Promotion JOHN SipEs, The Origins of Campaign Agendas MARK ANDREAS KAYSER, Trade and the Timing of Elections KENNETH BENOIT, DANIELA GIANNETTI AND MICHAEL LAVER, Voter Strategies with Restricted Choice Menus BARBARA NORRANDER, The Attrition Game: Initial Resources, Initial Contests and the Exit of Candidates During the US Presidential Primary Season THOMAS BERNAUER AND VALLY KouBlI, On the Interconnectedness of Regulatory Policy and Markets: Lessons from Banking MICHAEL EBEID AND JONATHAN RODDEN, Economic Geography and Economic Voting: Evidence from the US States Notes and comments KARL DEROUEN JR AND CHRISTOPHER SPRECHER, Arab Behaviour Towards Israel: Strategic Avoidance or Exploiting Opportunities? CHRISTOPHER KAM, Demotion and Dissent in the Canadian Liberal Party PART 4— OCTOBER 2006 Articles IAIN MCLEAN AND JENNIFER Nou, Why Should We Be Beggars with the Ballot in Our Hand? Veto Players and the Failure of Land Value Taxation in the United Kingdom, 1909-14 pag e ROBERT VAN DER VEEN AND LOEK GrRooT, Post-Productivism and Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis 99 3 OcTAVIO AMORIM NETO AND KAARE STROM, Breaking the Parliamentary Chain of Delegation: Presidents and Non-partisan Cabinet Members in European Democracies CATHERINE C. LANGLOIS AND JEAN-PIERRE LANGLOIS, When Fully Informed States Make Good the Threat of War: Rational Escalation and the Failure of Bargaining LUKE KEELE AND JENNIFER WOLAK, Value Conflict and Volatility in Party Identification CLIFFORD J. CARRUBBA, MATTHEW GABEL, LACEY MURRAH, RYAN CLOUGH, ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY AND REBECCA SCHAMBACH, Off the Record: Unrecorded Legislative Votes, Selection Bias and Roll-Call Vote Analysis WoolJIN Moon, The Paradox of Less Effective Incumbent Spending: Theory and Tests SUSAN WEBB YACKEE, Assessing Inter-Institutional Attention to and Influence on Government Regulatons Notes and comments JENNIFER VAN HEERDE, MARTIN JOHNSON AND SHAUN BOWLER, Barriers to Partici- pation, Voter Sophistication and Candidate Spending Choices in US Senate Elections SUSAN MENDus, Truth, Agency and the Hutton Report: A Reply to Diana Coole DIANA COOLE, Politics, Power and Contingency: Judging Hutton and Responding to Mendus