Demonstrates how governmental structure and institutional rules determine who gets what in American cities.

Institutional arrangements constitute the "rules of the game" for any civil and political society. To understand urban politics and policy making, including iss

An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychol

As many formerly authoritarian regimes have been replaced by democratic governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, questions have arisen about