"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. Since Brazil's adoption of a universal health care policy in 1988, the country's health care has been delivered by a mix of private...

Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of private providers and free public providers. We test whether income-based disparities in medical visits and medications remain in Brazil despite universal coverage using a...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Social Choice -- chapter 3 Voting Rules -- chapter 4 The Core -- chapter 5 The Heart -- chapter 6 A Spatial Model of Coalition -- chapter 7 A Spatial Model of Elections -- chapter 8 Activist Coalitions -- chapter 9 Coalitions in the United States -- chapter 10...

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations,...