| Introduction | |
| 1 | Capture and ideology in the economic theory of politics | 3 |
| 2 | The determinants of pesticide regulation : a statistical analysis of EPA decision | 25 |
| 3 | Political institutions and pollution control | 48 |
| 4 | Patterns of behavior in endangered species preservation | 58 |
| 5 | The voluntary provision of a pure public good : the case of reduced CFC emissions and the Montreal Protocol | 74 |
| 6 | Political internalization of economic externalities and environmental policy | 93 |
| 7 | Polluters' profits and political response : direct controls versus taxes | 111 |
| 8 | A positive theory of environmental quality regulation | 120 |
| 9 | Instrument choice in environmental policy | 145 |
| 10 | Economic prescriptions for environmental problems : how the patient followed the doctor's orders | 164 |
| 11 | Taxes, torts, and the toxics release inventory : Congressional voting on instruments to control pollution | 184 |
| 12 | The political economy of market-based environmental policy : the U.S. acid rain program | 202 |
| 13 | The choice of regulatory instruments in environmental policy | 249 |
| 14 | Toward a political theory of the emergence of environmental incentive regulation | 304 |
| 15 | No chance for incentive-oriented environmental policies in representative democracies? : a public choice analysis | 325 |
| 16 | Environmental governance in federal systems : the effects of capital competition and lobby groups | 343 |
| 17 | Regulatory federalism and environmental protection in the United States | 357 |
| 18 | Federalism and environmental regulation : a public choice analysis | 376 |
| 19 | Strategic interaction and the determination of environment policy across U.S. states | 465 |
| 20 | The impact of economics on environment policy | 489 |
| 21 | From research to policy : the case of environmental economics | 514 |
| 22 | Environmental regulation in the 1990s : a retrospective analysis | 533 |