CONTENTS
Contributors = ⅶ
Introduction / Albert Breton ; Gianluigi Galeotti ; Pierre Salmon ; Ronald Wintrobe = 1
Part Ⅰ Democracy, the market, and the law = 9
1 Democratic stability as a self－enforcing equilibrium / Barry R. Weingast = 11
2 Democracy, competition, and the principle of Isonomia : An economic analysis of the political exchange as an incomplete contract / Michele Grillo = 47
3 Constitutional democracy : An interpretation / Dennis C. Mueller = 64
4 Necessary and sufficient conditions for a viable democracy / Peter Bernholz = 88
Part Ⅱ Democracy and economic growth = 105
5 Government spending and economic growth under democracy and dictatorship / Jos e' Antonio Cheibub ; Adam Przeworski = 107
6 Rent seeking and redistribution under democracy versus dictatorship / Ronald Wintrobe = 125
7 Democratic governments, economic growth, and income distribution / Pierre Salmon = 144
Part Ⅲ Democratic deficiencies and possible improvements = 161
8 Democracy and the public machinery : The case of the headless Leviathan / Gianluigi Galeotti = 163
9 Democracy and empowerment / Albert Breton ; Margot Breton = 176
10 Political participation, voting, and economic policy : Three problems of modem democracies / Luigi Campiglio = 196
Part Ⅳ Democratic expectations = 209
11 Components of the democratic ideal / Ian Shapiro = 211
12 Democracy on the margin / Russell Hardin = 249
Index = 267
