Part I : Institutions -- Demand for wealth-reducing institutional change : The role of ideas and interests -- Cultural legacies : Persistence and transmission -- Judicial independence : Evidence from the Philippine Supreme Court (1970-2003) -- Comparative analysis of institutional incentives and organisational adjustment of social actors in eight European countries -- The historical origins of regional economic inequality in Spain : The cultural legacy of political institutions -- Institutional change in Spain from Francoism to democracy : The effects of the Great Recession -- Institutional determinants : A case study of IMF programme and non-programme countries -- Part II : Democracy -- An experimental study of jury voting behavior -- Trading portfolios : The stability of coalition governments -- A median activist theorem for two-stage spatial models -- No polarization in spite of primaries : A median voter theorem with competitive nominations -- Downsian competition with assembly democracy -- Rent seeking and the size of parliamentary majorities -- A comment on choice rules and median outcomes -- How should votes be weighted to reflect the existing and "calculated" distribution of voting power of weighted voting organizations integrating different majority requirements? -- Part III : Elections -- Party activists in the 2009 German federal elections -- Application of the variable choice logit model to the British general election of 2010 -- Turnout and polarization under alternative electoral systems -- Fiscal deficits and type of government : A study of Spanish local elections -- Federalism, proportionality, and popular will in U.S. presidential elections : Did Colorado have the right idea?

1. Economics
2. Political science
3. Finance
4. Political science -- Economic aspects
5. Voting
6. Democracy
7. Elections