What Role for Government?

List of Tables vii

List of Figures ix

Introduction: What Role for Government? / Richard J. Zeckhauser and Derek Leebaert 3

Part I. Democracy and Elections

1. The Role of Television in American Politics / Fred Wertheimer and Randy Huwa 18

2. The Presidential Nominating System: Problems and Prescriptions / Michael Nelson 34

3. Morality, Democracy, and the Intimate Contest / Joel L. Fleishman 52

Part II. Economic Well-Being

4. Transfer Recipients and the Poor during the 1970s / Richard A. Kasten and John E. Todd 60

5. Labor Supply Response to a Negative Income Tax / Philip K. Robins, Richard W. West, and Gary L. Stieger 78

6. Measuring the Distribution of Personal Taxes / Marcus C. Berliant and Robert P. Strauss 97

7. Private Sector Unions in the Political Arena: Public Policy versus Employee Preference / James T. Bennett and Manuel H. Johnson 116

8. The Davis-Bacon Act / Arnold H. Raphaelson 123

9. OPEC II and the Wage-Price Spiral / Stephen G. Cecchetti, David S. McClain, Michael J. McKee, and Daniel H. Saks 137

10. The Political Economy of Wage and Price Regulation: The Case of the Carter Pay-Price Standards / W. Kip Viscus 155

Part III. Health

11. The Value of a Life: What Difference Does It Make? / John D. Graham and James W. Vaupel 176

12. The Formation of Health-Related Habits / Gerard F. Anderson, Anthony E. Boardman, and Robert P. Inman 187

13. The Effect of Liquor Taxes on Drinking, Cirrhosis, and Auto Fatalities / Philip J. Cook 203

14. Estimating Distribution Functions for Small Groups: Postoperative Hospital Stay / Michael A. Stoto 221

Part IV. Regulation

15. The Economic Basis for OSHA's and EPA's Generic Carcinogen Regulations / Ivy E. Broder and John F. Morrall III 242

16. When to Pay for Sunk Benefits / Michael O'Hare and David S. Mundel 255

17. What is Regulation? / Christopher C. De Muth 262

Part V. Management

18. The Search for Implementation Theory / Erwin C. Hargrove 280

19. Compensating When the Government Harms / Joseph J. Cordes, Robert S. Goldfarb, and James R. Barth 295

20. The Fundamentals of Cutback Management / Robert D. Behn 310

Postscript

21. The Creation of a Profession / Joel L. Fleishman 324

Notes and References 327

Index 359

Contributors 365