1. Special Issue on Social Conflict – Preface

   • Amihai Glazer
   • Kai K. Konrad

   Original Papers Pages: 1 - 1

2. Targeting and political support for welfare spending

   • Karl Ove Moene
   • Michael Wallerstein

   Original Papers Pages: 3 - 24

3. Butter and guns: Complementarity between economic and military competition

   • Herschel I. Grossman
   • Juan Mendoza

   Original Papers Pages: 25 - 33

4. How to understand, and deal with dictatorship: an economist's view

   • Ronald Wintrobe

   Original Papers Pages: 35 - 58

5. Social decision rules are not immune to conflict

   • Joan Esteban
   • Debraj Ray

   Original Papers Pages: 59 - 67

6. Tax resistance, economy and state transformation in China and Europe

   • R. Bin Wong

   Original Papers Pages: 69 - 83

7. Social identity, inequality and conflict

   • James A. Robinson

   Original Papers Pages: 85 - 99