Introduction Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe; Part I.
Trust, Information, and Bureaucracy: 1. Trust and society Russel Hardin; 2.
Downsizing trust Ronald Wintrobe; 3. Information and political
decision-makers Jean-Dominique Lafay; Part II. Competition and Collusion in
Government: 4. Divisible versus indivisible policies: an exploration of
clientelistic politics Giorgio Brosio; 5. Founding fathers vs. rotten kids:
a positive approach to constitutional politics Gianluigi Galeotti; Part
III. Decentralization and Federalism: 6. Fiscal decentralization and
Competitive Governments Richard Bird; 7. On the reassignment of fiscal
powers in a federal state Stanley Winer; 8. Assigning powers over the
Canadian environment Anthony Scott; 9. Art and culture goods and fiscal
federalism Francesco Forte; 10. Vertical competition in a unitary state
Pierre Salmon; 11. Nationalism and federalism: the political constitution
of peace Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin; 12. A political efficiency case
for Federalism in multinational states: controlling ethnic rent-seeking
Roger Congleton; 13. Quebec 1995: the rhetoric of the referendum Robert
Young; 14. Public subsidies for private firms in a federalist democracy
Dennis Mueller; 15. Economic constitutions, protectionism and competition
among jurisdictions Viktor Vanberg; 16. A cautious view of international
harmonization: implications from Breton's theory of competitive governments
Michael Trebilcock and Robert Howse.

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