Table Of Content

Public Choice 83: 399-400, 1995. Public Choice Contents of Volume 83 1995 Volume 83, Nos. 1-2 D. Usher, Victimization, rent-seeking and just compensation B.L. Benson, D.W. Rasmussen and OD.L. Sollars, Police bureaucracies, their incentives, and the war on drugs R.G. Holcombe and R.S. Sobel, Empirical evidence on the publicness of state legislative activities W. Thorbecke and S. Matzelevich, Check bouncing and fiscal irrespon- sibility: Evidence of nonideological shirking by legislators C.R. Shipan, Looking for a smoking gun: Committee jurisdictions and congressional voting decisions R.M. Harstad, Privately informed seekers of an uncertain rent D. Coates and M.C. Munger, Win, lose, or withdraw: A categorical analysis of career patterns in the House of Representatives, 1948-1978 95-111 K.H. Baik and J.F. Shogren, Competitive-share group formation in rent-seeking contests 113-126 F.G. Mixon, Jr., Public choice and the EPA: Empirical evidence on carbon emissions violations 127-137 R.L. Faith and N.C. Short, Bureaucratic tenure and economic perfor- mance in centrally planned economies 139-157 M. Paldam and P. Skott, A rational-voter explanation of the cost of ruling 159-172 J.P. Azam, How to pay for the peace? A theoretical framework with references to African countries 173-184 Book Reviews T.J. Philipson and R.A. Posner, Private choices and public health: The AIDS epidemic in an economic perspective (R.B. Ekelund, jr.) 185-187 M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer (Eds.), Regulation and the nature of postal and delivery services (B. Yandle) 187-189 D. Gauthier and R. Sugden (Eds.), Rationality, justice and the social contract (W.J. Samuels) 189-191 R.E. Meiners and B. Yandle, Taking the environment seriously (G.L. Brady) 192-195 400 R.G. Holcombe, The economic foundations of government (R. Higgs) 195-197 C.K. Rowley (Ed.), Public choice theory; Social choice theory (N.J.G. Cain) 198-201 Volume 83, Nos. 3-4 Ch.K. Rowley and R.D. Tollison, Editorial announcement iii G.W. Scully, Congressional tenure: Myth and reality 203-219 D.K. Bhattacharyya and R.W. Wassmer, Fiscal dynamics of local elected officials 221-249 Th.A. Husted, L.W. Kenny and R.B. Morton, Constituent errors in assessing their Senators 251-271 B.A. Abrams and K.A. Lewis, Cultural and institutional determinants of economic growth: A cross-section analysis 273-289 J.W. Lipford, Group size and the free-rider hypothesis: An examination of new evidence from churches 291-303 G.D. Mateer and R.A. Lawson, The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat 305-312 E. Overbye, Explaining welfare spending 313-335 L. Goerke and M.J. Holler, Voting on standardisation 337-351 L.E. Borge, Economic and political determinants of fee income in Norwegian local governments 353-373 Book Reviews J.F. Cogan, T.J. Muris and A. Schick, The budget puzzle: Understana- ing federal spending (W.M. Crain) 375-377 G. Tullock, The economics of nonhuman societies (J.T. Bennett) 377-379 T.L. Anderson and PJ. Hill (Eds.), The political economy of the American West (F.S. McChesney) 380-382 K.J. Meier, The politics of sin: Drugs, alcohol, and public policy (M. Thornton) 382-384 J. Rauch, Demosclerosis: The silent killer of American government (C. Paul) 384-386 C.M. Swain, Black faces, black interests: The representation of African Americans in Congress (L.M. Overby) 386-390 K. Binmore, Game theory and the social contract. Volume 1: Playing fair (B.G. Linster) 390-392 J.T. Bennett and T.J. Dilorenzo, Unhealthy charities: Hazardous to your health and wealth (A.F. Abbott) 393-395 Instructions to authors 397-398 Volume contents 399-400 Author index 401 re