BOOKS

Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions (edited, with Kenneth A. Shepsle). University of Michigan Press. 1995.

The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted? (edited with John A. Ferejohn). Stanford: Hoover Institution Press (1997).

Analytic Narratives (with Robert Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

"Agenda Manipulation, Strategic Voting, and Legislative Details in the Compromise Of 1850" (with Sean M. Theriault) in David Brady and Matthew D. McCubbins, Theoretical Explanations on the History of CongressStanford: Stanford University Press (forthcoming, 2001).

RECENT ARTICLES

"The Industrial Organization of Congress; or Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Market" (with William J. Marshall), Journal of Political Economy 96 (February 1988): 132-63.

"Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th Century England" (with Douglass C. North). Journal of Economic History. (December 1989) 49: 803-32.

"The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Medieval Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs" (with Paul R. Milgrom and Douglass C. North) Economics and Politics (March 1990) 2: 1-23.

"The Economic Role of Political Institutions: Market-Preserving Federalism and Economic Development." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization(Spring 1995) 11: 1-31.

"Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China" (with Gabriella Montinola and Yingyi Qian),World Politics(October, 1995) 48: 50-81.

"The Origins of American Trade Policy: Rules, Coalitions and International Politics," (with Michael Bailey and Judith Goldstein) World Politics(April 1997) 49: 309-38.

"The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law." American Political Science Review (June 1997) 91: 245-63.

"Rationality and Interpretation: The Politics of Transition," (with Robert Bates and Rui de Figueiredo). Politics and Society (Forthcoming, December 1998).

"The Political Origins of the Administrative Procedure Act," Published under "McNollgast" (With Mathew D. McCubbins and Roger Noll) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (1999, forthcoming).

Limited Governments, Powerful States" (with Kenneth A. Schultz), in Randolph Siverson, ed., Strategic Politicians, Institutions, and Foreign Policy. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998).

"Political Stability and Civil War: Institutions, Commitment, and American Democracy," in Analytic Narratives, Robert Bates, Avner Greif, Margaret Levi, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry R. Weingast, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

"Political Control of the Bureaucracy," published under "McNollgast" (With Mathew D. McCubbins and Roger Noll), in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. (London: Palgrave, 1999).

"Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" (with Rui de Figueiredo), in Jack Snyder and Barbara Walter, eds., Military Intervention in Civil Wars. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
 
 

WORKING PAPERS:

Careaga, Maite, and Barry R. Weingast.   "The Fiscal Pact with the Devil: A Positive Approach to Fiscal Federalism, Revenue Sharing, And Good Governance," Working Paper, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2000.

Jin, Hehui, Yingyi Qian, and Barry R. Weingast.  "Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives:  Federalism, Chinese Syle,"  Working Paper, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2000.

North, Douglass C., William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast.  "Order, Disorder, and Economic Change:  Latin America vs. North America," in Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton Root, eds., Governing for Prosperity.  (New Haven:  Yale University Press, forthcoming 2000).

Snyder, Susan K., and Barry R. Weingast.  "The American System of Shared Powers: The President, Congress, and the NLRB"   Working Paper, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1999.

Weingast, Barry R.  "The Theory of Comparative Federalism and The Emergence of Economic Liberalization in Mexico, China, and India."  Working Paper, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2000.

"Self-Enforcing Federalism: Solving the Two Fundamental Dilemmas," (with Rui de Figueiredo). Working Paper, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, November 1998.

"Packing the Courts: The Politics of Creating Federal Judgeships" (by McNollgast - with Mathew D. McCubbins and Roger G. Noll). Working paper, Hoover Institution, January 1998.

"The Democratic Advantage: The Institutional Sources of State Power in International Competition" (with Kenneth A. Schultz). Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1998.