ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the constraints and analyzes how they define the range of feasible alternatives open to the governing party and how they influence its behavior and indirectly the supply of public output. In deciding between these two forms of punishment, the governing party will take the following factors into account: the income and welfare of the offender and the net cost of imprisonment that the innocent must pay. The term implicit logrolling refers to the action of trading policies one against another as distinguished from the trading of votes which is the prime concern of explicit logrolling or logrolling proper. Search—surveys, polls, grass-root canvassings, consultations, maintaining contacts, releasing trial balloons, and a host of other devices—is designed to provide the governing party with information about the intensity with which preferences are held but more importantly about the differences in tastes that exist in the electorate.
