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...

We develop a stochastic model of electoral competition in order to study the economic and political determinants of trade policy. We model a small open economy with two tradable goods, each of which is produced using a sector specific factor (e.g., land and capital) and another factor that is...