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The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets Author(s): Barry R. Weingast and William J. Marshall Source: The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 132-163 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1830714 Accessed: 24/02/2010 13:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucpress. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Political Economy. http://www.jstor.org

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The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organizedas MarketsAuthor(s): Barry R. Weingast and William J. MarshallSource: The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 96, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 132-163Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1830714Accessed: 24/02/2010 13:56

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