This study inspects specialization in legislatures by moving from a relatively macro level of analysis of committee-floor interaction to a relatively microlevel study of individual decision making within committee. This approach also addresses a common shortcoming in studies of specialization...

The Federal Trade Commission's action to eliminate basing-point pricing in the soft plywood industry during the mid 1970s created a natural experiment: the author finds that the FTC's action had no effect on the delivered price of the base-site product (Douglas fir plywood) but decreased the...

Partisan bias occurs when the translation of the popular vote into legislative seats differs between competing parties. This paper contains a theoretical and empirical analysis of the consequences of an efficient gerrymander for the partisan bias of an electoral system. Under partisan...

This paper investigates the determinants of state spending over 1960-90. Recent empirical studies suggest that state government expenditure is greater than the electorate desires. The authors' main finding is that expenditure was positively related to the number of seats in a state's...

This article investigates the relationship between imperfect competition and basing-point pricing. Basing-point pricing can emerge if firms at the base site are Bertrand competitors, firms at nonbase locations are less than perfectly competitive with each other and are von Stackleberg leaders...