Table Of Content

Public Choice 118: 487-488, 2004. Public Choice Contents of Volume 118 2004 Volume 118, Nos. 1-2 Editorial A (partial) changing of the guard vii—viii Editorial commentaries on the road map to peace in the Middle East T. Cowen, A road map to Middle Eastern peace? — A Public Choice perspective 1-10 S. Plaut, Misplaced applications of economic theory to the Middle East 11-24 T. Cowen, Response to Steven Plaut 25-27 S. Plaut, The final word 29-30 Articles B. Grofman, Reflections on public choice 31-51 J.W. Mixon, Jr., A. Sen, E.F. Stephenson, Are the networks biased? “Calling” states in the 2000 presidential election 53-59 H. Tam, The Humean critique of lump sum taxation (or the implaus- ibility of pure lump sum taxes in autocracy) 61-76 R. Futagami, K. Kamada, T. Sato, Government transfers and the Samaritan’s dilemma in the family 77-86 J.C. Heckelman, A spatial model of the U.S. Senate elections 87-103 G.R. Karahan, W.F. Shughart Il, Under two flags: Symbolic voting in the State of Mississippi 105-124 C. Grafton, A. Permaloff, Supplementing Zupan’s measurements of the ideological preferences of U.S. presidents 125-131 Y. Shin, Constituency opinion and PAC contributions: A case of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League 133-149 W.E. Stein, A. Rapoport, Asymmetric two-stage group rent-seeking: Comparison of two contest structures 151-167 D.K. Bhattacharyya, On the use of the hidden economy estimates 169-181 H. Tam, A social contract approach to the formation of national borders 183-209 Bock reviews William Bernhard, ihx Banking on reform: Political parties and central bank independence in the industrial democracies (R.R. McGregor) 211-214 488 Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie, John W. Payne, David A. Schka- de, W. Kip Viscusi, Punitive damages: How juries decide (G. Tullock) 214-218 Barry C. Burden, David C. Kimball, Why Americans split their tickets: Campaigns, competition, and divided government (T.L. Brunell) 218-221 Volume 118, Nos. 3-4 Editorial commentaries President George W. Bush and U.S. federal budget deficits W.F. Shughart Il, George W. Bush and the return to deficit finance 223-234 M.C. Munger, Economists and fiscal policy advice: A deficit or a deficiency? 235-249 Articles T. Stratmann, J. Garner, Judicial selection: Politics, biases, and constituency demands 251-270 P. Egger, H. Winner, Economic freedom and taxation: Is there a Trade-off in the locational competition between countries? 271-288 M.N. Islam, S.L. Winer, Tinpots, totalitarians (and democrats): An empirical investigation of the effects of economic growth on civil liberties and political rights 289-323 R.D. Murphy, Jr., Crime, confiscation, and growth: For and against Leviathan 325-340 F.J. Veiga, L.G. Veiga, The determinants of vote intentions in Portugal 341-364 R. Ricciuti, Political fragmentation and fiscal outcomes 365-388 A. Riviere, Comparing electoral systems: A geometric analysis 389-412 A. Hamlin, C. Jennings, Group formation and political conflict: Instrumental and expressive approaches 413-435 P. de Donder, J. Hindriks, Majority support for progressive income taxation with corner preferences 437-449 P. Bernholz, F. Schneider, R. Vaubel, F. Vibert, An alternative constitutional treaty for the European Union 451-468 Book reviews Dennis C. Mueller, Public choice III (William F. Shughart 1!) 469-473 Philipp Maier, Political pressure, rhetoric and monetary policy: Lessons for the European Central Bank (M.R. Garfinkel) 473-477 Instructions to authors 479-484 Author index 485 Volume contents 487-488