In this issue:

1. Downsian Model with Asymmetric Information: Possibility of Policy Divergence by Kazuya Kikuchi
2. Democratization is the determinant of technological change by Coccia Mario
3. Negotiating constitution for political unions by Vikas Kumar
4. Individuals' Voting Choice and Cooperation in Repeated Social Dilemma Games by Annamaria Nese and Patrizia Sbriglia
5. Democracy and the curse of natural resources by Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk

In this issue:

1. Parliamentary Election Cycles and the Turkish Banking Sector by Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan and Oleksandr Talavera
2. What determines debt intolerance? The role of political and monetary institutions by Raffaela Giordano and Pietro Tommasino
3. Political Cycles in a Small Open Economy and the Effect of Economic Integration by Georgios Efthyvoulou
4. Bargaining one-dimensional policies and the efficiency of super majority rules by Clara Ponsati and Daniel Cardona
5. A Theory of Political Competition over Military Policy and Income Redistribution by Naoki Yoshihara
6. Awareness and AIDS: A Political Economy Model by Gani Aldashev and Jean-Marie Baland
7. Political Institutions and Human Development Does Democracy Fulfill its 'Constructive' and 'Instrumental' Role? by Sebastian Vollmer and Maria Ziegler

In this issue:

1. On the Philosophy of Group Decision Methods I: The Non-obviousness of Majority Rule by Mathias Risse
2. One Cheer for Foreign Lobbying by T.S. Aidt and U. Hwang
3. Russian Election Reform and the Effect of Social Conformity on Voting and the Party System: 2007 and 2008 by Stephen Coleman
4. Disclosure by Politicians by Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Portam Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer
5. Government Transfers and Political Support by Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

In this issue:

1. Electoral Competition in 2-Dimensional Ideology Space with Unidimensional Commitment by Marcel Dziubinski and Jaideep Roy
2. Political Institutions, State Capabilities and Public Policy - International Evidence by Carlos Scartascini, Ernesto Stein and Mariano Tommasi
3. We the People and the Others: The Co-founding of Democratic States by Hans Agne