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Public choice and the challenges of democracy: New thinking in political economy/ edited by José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz

Contributor(s): Pardo, Jose Casas, ed | Schwartz, Pedro, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007Description: 366 pISBN: 9781847200648; 1847200648Subject(s): Democracy | Social choiceDDC classification: 320.5315

Contents:

Introduction / José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz -- Threats democracy faces: an overview / José Casas Pardo -- Social justice examined: with a little help from Adam Smith / Anthony de Jasay -- Affective public choice / Frans van Winden -- Bentham on public choice: utility, interests and the agency problem in democracy / Pedro Schwartz -- Towards a more consistent design of parliamentary democracy and its consequences for the European Union / Charles B. Blankart and Dennis C. Mueller -- Democracy, citizen sovereignty and constitutional economics / Viktor J. Vanberg -- Diffuse and popular interests versus concentrated interests: the fate of environmental policies in divided government / Giorgio Brosio -- Should the democratic model be applied to non-governmental organizations and firms? / Pascal Salin -- Citizenship and democracy in international organizations / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer -- Law and economic development: common law versus civil law / Francisco Cabrillo -- A reformulation of voting theory / William A. Niskanen -- Informational limits to public policy: ignorance and the jury theorem / Roger D. Congleton -- Democratic decision, stability of outcome and agent power, with special reference to the European Union / Manfred J. Holler and Stefan Napel -- The unequal treatment of voters under a single transferable vote: implications for electoral welfare with an application to the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections / Vani K. Borooah -- The pattern of democracy in the twentieth century: a study of the Polity index / Peter Sandholt Jensen and Martin Paldam -- Democracy and low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman -- A theory of the democratic fiscal constitution / Francesco Forte and Domenico D' Amico -- (When) do tax increases cause electoral damage?: the case of local property taxes in Spain / Núria Bosch Roca and Albert Solé-Ollé -- The mystery of Brazil / Gordon Tullock

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	320.5315 PAR/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P00971

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Introduction / José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz --
Threats democracy faces: an overview / José Casas Pardo --
Social justice examined: with a little help from Adam Smith / Anthony de Jasay --
Affective public choice / Frans van Winden --
Bentham on public choice: utility, interests and the agency problem in democracy / Pedro Schwartz --
Towards a more consistent design of parliamentary democracy and its consequences for the European Union / Charles B. Blankart and Dennis C. Mueller --
Democracy, citizen sovereignty and constitutional economics / Viktor J. Vanberg --
Diffuse and popular interests versus concentrated interests: the fate of environmental policies in divided government / Giorgio Brosio --
Should the democratic model be applied to non-governmental organizations and firms? / Pascal Salin --
Citizenship and democracy in international organizations / Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer --
Law and economic development: common law versus civil law / Francisco Cabrillo --
A reformulation of voting theory / William A. Niskanen --
Informational limits to public policy: ignorance and the jury theorem / Roger D. Congleton --
Democratic decision, stability of outcome and agent power, with special reference to the European Union / Manfred J. Holler and Stefan Napel --
The unequal treatment of voters under a single transferable vote: implications for electoral welfare with an application to the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections / Vani K. Borooah --
The pattern of democracy in the twentieth century: a study of the Polity index / Peter Sandholt Jensen and Martin Paldam --
Democracy and low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman --
A theory of the democratic fiscal constitution / Francesco Forte and Domenico D' Amico --
(When) do tax increases cause electoral damage?: the case of local property taxes in Spain / Núria Bosch Roca and Albert Solé-Ollé --
The mystery of Brazil / Gordon Tullock

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