ECONOMY

subject index 1079
Indonesia 702
industrialization:
and inequality 626–7
and the New World 747–8
and newly industrializing countries 760
inequality 624–5, 639
and American exceptionalism 634–8
beliefs about inequality 637–8
economic explanations of 634
ethnic heterogeneity 635
failure of left-wing movements 636–7
political institutions 635–7
and causes of 625–31
demand for skilled workers 627
distribution of skills 627–8
economic development 626–7
education policy 629
ethnic heterogeneity 628–9, 630
political factors 627
political institutions 630–1
religion 628
technology 627
welfare spending 629–30
and cross-national variations 627–8
and measurement of 625
Gini coefficient 625
Kuznets curve 626
share of national income 625
and political impact of 631–4
corruption 634
democracy 632–3
expropriation 633–4
increased preference for redistribution 631–2
institutional structure 632–4
reduced redistribution 632–3
and state size 790–1
inflation:
and macro political economy 532–3
and public opinion 524
see also demand management, and the state
information 4
and aggregation of:
bicameralism 192–3
in committees 917, 927–9
voting behavior 15–17, 44–5, 46
and income redistribution 98–9
and social evaluation and information
invariance 417–19
and voting behavior:
information aggregation 15–17, 44–5, 46
information revelation 11–15
sources of information 43–6
institutional analysis 223
Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico) 367
institutionalism, and coalitions 162–5
cabinet stability 165
minority governments 164–5
reappraisal of existing theory 163–4
structure-induced equilibrium 165–8
institutions:
and approaches to study of 6
and choice of 1035–7
preference drift 1037
status quo bias 1036–7
uncertainty 1036–7
veil of ignorance 1035–6
and comparative analysis of 7
as constraint 1034
and definition of 945–6, 1032
and distributive politics 611–14
and dynamic nature of 1032
as equilibria 1033–5
as game forms 1032–3
and interest aggregation 764–6
and interest-based concept of 945–7
and maintenance of 1037–40
incomplete awareness 1038–9
self-confirming equilibrium 1038–9
self-generating revision 1038, 1039–40
self-stability 1041
and new structuralism 617–18
and origins of 617
and problems in studying 976
and procedural change 1042–3
admission of new members 1046
amendment procedures 1040–1, 1043
emergency powers 1046–7
escape clauses/nullification 1044–5
interpretative courts 1043–4
secession 1045–6
suspension of rules 1044
and research process 4
and Riker Objection 1032, 1040–2, 1047–8
and strategic social interaction and choice 1033
and varieties of capitalism:
coordinated market economies 615
institutional complementarity 615
liberal market economies 615
relationship of economic/political
institutions 616
role of economic institutions 614–15
welfare state 615–16
instrumental activity 329
and constitutions 333, 334, 339–40
interdependence 759
interest groups:
and campaign contributions 50, 52
and economic practice 530–1
and European integration 806, 807
and exchange rates:
level of 595
regime choice 592
and older people 537–8
and political actors 528
and political advertising:
directly informative 57–9
indirectly informative 53–7
and political economy approach 528–9
and special interest gridlock 530
interests:
and interest-based concept of institutions 945–7
and Open Economy Politics (OEP) 762–4
institutional aggregation of interests 764–6
and sociological concept of 943–4
social relations 944
intergenerational conflict 525, 536–8