ECONOMY

Subject Index
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accountability:
and coalition governments 729
and electoral systems 468, 724, 726–7
direct effects of 727–8
indirect effects of 729–30
and income redistribution 85
and representation 724–5
and retrospective voting 468
actor-network-theory (ANT) 940
Administrative Procedure Act (USA, 1946)
214
and implications of 278–80
administrative state 256–7
advertising, see political advertising
Africa, and democratization 664
African Financial Community 588
age, and international trade 825–6
agency discretion 214–16
agenda-setting:
and centralized agenda powers 155–6
omnibus bills 156–7
policy direction 156
and judiciary 211
and legislative organization:
agenda-setting offices 145
evolution of agenda-setting powers
146–7
types of agenda power 149–51
and negative agenda power 149–50
gridlock 151–2
reactions to gridlock 152
roll rates of veto players 153
and parliamentary systems 125–6
and positive agenda power 153–5
counterbalancing of 154–5
decentralization of 154
and presidential veto power 245
and procedural cartel theory 229, 230
agglomeration, see economic geography
alliances, and anarchy 892–3
Allnut vs Inglis (King’s Bench, 1810) 350
ally principle, and delegation 260, 262–3, 264, 266,
267, 269
altruism:
and cooperative behavior 953
parental 18
see also behavior; cooperation
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
538
American politics, new separation-of-powers
approach to 199–202, 218–19
and the bureaucracy 212–16
agency discretion 214–16
control of 213–14
development of new approach 212–13
and causality 201
and decision-making sequence 219
and degrees of freedom problem 201
and implications for empirical analysis 201
and institutional interactions 200, 216–17
telecommunications policy 217–18
and judicial review 217–18
and judiciary 207–12
agenda-setting 211
appointments process 211
interactions with other institutions 207–8
judicial decision-making 208–10
legislative override 209–10
limits on policy-making capacity 210–11
and the presidency 202–7, 241–2
appointments process 204–7
interactions with other institutions 202
spatial model of budget problem 202–4
veto rights 202–4
and strategic interactions 200, 218–19
anarchy:
and absence of higher authority 881, 882
and alliance formation 892–3
and commitment problems 890–2
and contracts 881, 882
andgunsvsbuttertrade-off 882–3
determination of power 884–6
technologies of conflict 883–4
and hierarchical governance 893–4
and impact of norms and institutions 890
and international relations 881
and motives for negotiated settlement:
complementarities in
production/consumption 888
destructiveness of war 886–7
risk aversion 887
uncertainty 887–8
and role of the future 890–1
and rules of division and level of arming 888–90
and trade and security policy 893
anthropology, and the state 709
appeasement 837
appointments process:
and American presidency 204–7, 247–9
and judiciary 211
approval voting. and voting theory 396–7
see also voting behavior; voting theory