Contents PART 1— JANUARY 1998 Articles MATTHEW SOBERG SHUGART, The Inverse Relationship Between Party Strength and Executive Strength: A Theory of Politicians’ Consti- tutional Choices TORBEN IVERSEN, Wage Bargaining, Hard Money and Economic Per- formance: Theory and Evidence for Organized Market Economies JAMES L. GIBSON and GREGORY A. CALDEIRA, Changes in the Legiti- macy of the European Court of Justice: A Post-Maastricht Analysis Tor MitsB@, The Open Politiconomy: A Dynamic Analysis of Social Democratic Popularity and Economic Policies in Scandinavia PAUL F. WHITELEY and PATRICK SEYD, The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain: A Spiral of Demobilization? KEN KOLLMAN, JOHN H. MILLER and Scotr E. PAGE, Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes MARTIN GILENS, PAUL M. SNIDERMAN and JAMES H. KUKLINSKI, Affirm- ative Action and the Politics of Realignment Notes and Comments DANIEL TREISMAN, Fiscal Redistribution in a Fragile Federation: Moscow and the Regions in 1994 SIMON PRICE, Comment on ‘The Politics of the Political Business Cycle’ GEORGE A. BOYNE, Party Competition and Local Spending Decisions PART 2—APRIL 1998 Articles JACK H. NAGEL, Social Choice in a Pluralitarian Democracy: The Poli- tics of Market Liberalization in New Zealand JAMES W. CLARKE, Without Fear or Shame: Lynching, Capital Punish- ment and the Subculture of Violence in the American South CHERYL SCHONHARDT-BAILEY, Parties and Interests in the ‘Marriage of Iron and Rye’ MICHAEL LAVER, COLIN RALLINGS and MICHAEL THRASHER, Policy Pay- offs in Local Government HUGH WARD, A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Politics of Taking It in Turns GRANT JORDAN and WILLIAM A. MALONEY, Manipulating Membership: Supply-Side Influences on Group Size Contents PART 1— JANUARY 1998 Articles MATTHEW SOBERG SHUGART, The Inverse Relationship Between Party Strength and Executive Strength: A Theory of Politicians’ Consti- tutional Choices TORBEN IVERSEN, Wage Bargaining, Hard Money and Economic Per- formance: Theory and Evidence for Organized Market Economies JAMES L. GIBSON and GREGORY A. CALDEIRA, Changes in the Legiti- macy of the European Court of Justice: A Post-Maastricht Analysis Tor MitsB@, The Open Politiconomy: A Dynamic Analysis of Social Democratic Popularity and Economic Policies in Scandinavia PAUL F. WHITELEY and PATRICK SEYD, The Dynamics of Party Activism in Britain: A Spiral of Demobilization? KEN KOLLMAN, JOHN H. MILLER and Scotr E. PAGE, Political Parties and Electoral Landscapes MARTIN GILENS, PAUL M. SNIDERMAN and JAMES H. KUKLINSKI, Affirm- ative Action and the Politics of Realignment Notes and Comments DANIEL TREISMAN, Fiscal Redistribution in a Fragile Federation: Moscow and the Regions in 1994 SIMON PRICE, Comment on ‘The Politics of the Political Business Cycle’ GEORGE A. BOYNE, Party Competition and Local Spending Decisions PART 2—APRIL 1998 Articles JACK H. NAGEL, Social Choice in a Pluralitarian Democracy: The Poli- tics of Market Liberalization in New Zealand JAMES W. CLARKE, Without Fear or Shame: Lynching, Capital Punish- ment and the Subculture of Violence in the American South CHERYL SCHONHARDT-BAILEY, Parties and Interests in the ‘Marriage of Iron and Rye’ MICHAEL LAVER, COLIN RALLINGS and MICHAEL THRASHER, Policy Pay- offs in Local Government HUGH WARD, A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Politics of Taking It in Turns GRANT JORDAN and WILLIAM A. MALONEY, Manipulating Membership: Supply-Side Influences on Group Size Notes and Comments page SERGE GALAM, Comment on ‘A Landscape Theory of Aggregation’ 411 ROBERT AXELROD and D. Scott BENNETT, Response to Galam’s Com- ment 412 PART 3— JULY 1998 Articles DESMOND KING, The Politics of Social Research: Institutionalizing Pub- lic Funding Regimes in the United States and Britain KIMBERLEY A. GROSS and DONALD R. KINDER, A Collision of Prin- ciples? Free Expression, Racial Equality and the Prohibition of Racist Speech PHILIP COWLEY and JOHN GARRY, The British Conservative Party and Europe: The Choosing of John Major JOHN BARTLE, Left-Right Position Matters, But Does Social Class? Causal Models of the 1992 British General Election Review Articles ROBERT E. GoopIn, Communities of Enlightenment ALBERT SOMIT and STEVEN A. PETERSON, Biopolitics After Three Decades — A Balance Sheet PART 4—OCTOBER 1998 Articles GEOFFREY EVANS, Euroscepticism and Conservative Electoral Support: How an Asset Became a Liability MICHAEL MARSH, Testing the Second-Order Election Model after Four European Elections DANIEL DIERMEIER and PETER VAN ROOZENDAAL, The Duration of Government Formation Processes in Western Multi-Party Democra- cies RICHARD SINNOTT, Party Attachment in Europe: Methodological Cri- tique and Substantive Implications Review Article JOE FOWERAKER, Institutional Design, Party Systems and Governability — Differentiating the Presidential Regimes of Latin America Notes and Comments R. J. JOHNSTON and C. J. PATTIE, Campaigning and Advertising: An Evaluation of the Components of Constituency Activism at Recent British General Elections CARLES Boix and DANIEL N. POSNER, Social Capital: Explaining Its Origins and Effects on Government Performance