TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pardo, Jose Casas, ed.
AU  - Schwartz, Pedro, ed.
TI  - Public choice and the challenges of democracy: New thinking in political economy
SN  - 9781847200648
U1  - 320.5315 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Social choice
N1  - 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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