
subject index 1075
on proportionality of party
representation 108–9
voting outcomes 527
and impact on economic development 735–6
and impact on economic policy 723–4, 735
direct effects of accountability 727–8
direct effects on government spending 730–2
electoral policy cycles 729–30
indirect effects of accountability 729–30
indirect effects on budget deficits 734–5
indirect effects on government spending 732–4
and income redistribution 87–8, 90–2
and list proportional representation 104
and modeling outcomes of 452–3
and monetary policy manipulation 547–8
and plurality voting 104
and politicians’ incentives:
direct effects on 727–8
indirect effects on 729–30
and presidential systems 107–8
and proportionality continuum 104–5
measures of proportionality 105
swing ratio 105
and public finance 468–9,
472
and responding to external shocks 765
and single non-transferable vote 113, 114–15
and single transferable vote 112
and stability of 725
and strategic voting 102, 110
and threshold of exclusion 104–5, 106
proportionality of party representation
108–9
elites:
and democratization 658–9
elite competition 662–3
portable skills 660–1
use of structures 661–3
and European integration 803–4, 812
embededness 938–40
and criticism of concept 939
and network theory 939–40
and uses of concept 938–9
emergency powers 1046–7
emotions, and evolutionary models of
behavior 18–20
endogenous institutions 4
and legislative organization:
committee expertise 10–11
committee system 8–9
political parties 9–10
preference-based approach 7–8
see also legislatures
endstate justice 376–8
and endstate cum procedural justice 381–
3
and endstate/procedural justice
complementarity 379–81
equilibrium:
analysis of, and public finance 447–9
applications of 451–3
citizen-candidate model 450–1, 452
issues to be covered 448–9
median voter theorem 448
party coalition model 451, 452
probabilistic spatial voting models 449–50,
451–2
problems faced by models 452–3
spatial voting model 452–3
and bargaining games 188
and coalition formation:
cabinet stability (Diermeier-Merlo model)
173–4
demand bargaining 170–1
efficient negotiations 171–2
sequential bargaining (Baron-Ferejohn model)
168–70
structure-induced equilibrium (Laver-Shepsle
model) 165–8
and evolutionary models of behavior 17
and income redistribution:
restricted tax schemes 86–7
targeting of heterogeneous groups 92–8
unrestricted transfer schemes 88–92
and institutions as 1033–5
and pivot theories:
pivotal politics theory 227
procedural cartel theory 229
and political advertising 52
directly informative advertising
57–9
indirectly informative advertising 55–7
and political behavior 4
and statutory interpretation 275
and survival of democracy 312, 321–2, 323, 324–5
see also electoral equilibrium
equity flows, and impact of distance 741
essential states, and neo-realism 835
Estonia, and democratization 664
ethnicity 852
and definition of ethnic group 852–3
and ethnic violence 857–8
cross-national variation 857–8
definition of 857
deliberate provocation of 863–4
intraethnic politics 863
unitary actor explanations 862–3
and politicization of 853
as basis for coalition-building 860–2
conflicting ethnic preferences 858–9
cross-national variation 854–5
impact of economic modernization 859–60
political boundaries 856
pork-barrel politics 861–2
post-colonial environments 860
primordialist explanation of 858
research on 864–5
temporal variations 856
see also common-pool problem
and racism and redistribution 1026
and social relevance of 853
cross-national variation 854
and survival of democracy 322
–4
Eurobarometer surveys 807
European Central Bank 591, 799, 803, 804, 810–11
European Coal and Steel Community 799, 801–2
European Commission 802, 804
and delegation 263
European Council of Ministers 804–5