Economics & Politics focuses on analytical political economy, broadly defined as the study of economic and political phenomena and policy in models that include political processes, institutions and markets. The journal is the source for innovative theoretical and empirical work on the intersection of politics and economics, at both domestic and international levels, and aims to promote new approaches on how these forces interact to affect political outcomes and policy choices, economic performance and societal welfare.

Economics & Politics is a vital source of information for economists, academics and students, providing:

• Analytical political economics
• International scholarship
• Accessible & thought-provoking articles
• Creative inter-disciplinary analysis

TopHighlights

• A Test of Political Control of the Bureaucracy: The Case of Mergers
  Malcolm B. Coate
• Democracy and the Variability of Economic Performance
  Heitor Almeida and Daniel Ferreira
• A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic
  John S. Earle and Scott Gehlbach
• Some Lessons from Transaction-Cost Politics for Less-Developed Countries
  Avinash K. Dixit
• Restraining the Genuine Homo Economicus: Why the Economy Cannot Be Divorced from Its Governance
  Stergios Skaperdas
• Concessional Amnesty and the Politics of Immigration Reforms
  Nancy H. Chau