Public Choice and the Challenges of Democracy

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Autor(en)		Verlag	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Herausgeber	José Casas Pardo, Pedro Schwartz
Sachgebiet(e)	Public Choice, English Books	ISBN	978-1-84720-064-8
2007, 384 Seiten, Festeinband/Hardcover

This timely and important volume addresses the serious challenges faced by democracy in contemporary society. With contributions from some of the world’s most prestigious scholars of public choice and political science, this comprehensive collection presents a complete overview of the threats democracy must confront, by both contesting accepted ideas and offering new approaches. Using theoretical and empirical evidence, this book will be a significant addition to the current literature, providing original and enlightening perspectives on the theory of democracy.

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
  by José Casas Pardo and Pedro Schwartz
• PART I: GENERAL PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY
  • 1. Threats Democracy Faces: An Overview
    José Casas Pardo
  • 2. Social Justice Examined: With a Little Help from Adam Smith
    Anthony de Jasay
  • 3. Affective Public Choice
    Frans van Winden
  • 4. Bentham and Public Choice: Utility, Interests and the Agency Problem in Democracy
    Pedro Schwartz
• PART II: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF DEMOCRACY
  • 5. Towards a More Consistent Design of Parliamentary Democracy and its Consequences for the European Union
    Charles B. Blankart and Dennis C. Mueller
  • 6. Democracy, Citizen Sovereignty and Constitutional Economics
    Viktor J. Vanberg
  • 7. Diffuse and Popular Interests versus Concentrated Interests: The Fate of Environmental Policies in Divided Government
    Giorgio Brosio
  • 8. Should the Democratic Model Be Applied to Non-Governmental Organizations and Firms?
    Pascal Salin
  • 9. Citizenship and Democracy in International Organizations
    Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer
  • 10. Law and Economic Development: Common Law versus Civil Law
    Francisco Cabrillo
• PART III: VOTING ISSUES
  • 11. A Reformulation of Voting Theory
    William A. Niskanen
  • 12. Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem
    Roger D. Congleton
  • 13. Democratic Decision, Stability of Outcome and Agent Power, with Special Reference to the European Union
    Manfred J. Holler and Stefan Napel
  • 14. 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
• PART IV: DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE WORLD
  • 15. The Pattern of Democracy in the Twentieth Century: A Study of the Polity Index
    Peter Sandholt Jensen and Martin Paldam
  • 16. Democracy in Low-Income Countries
    Arye L. Hillman
• PART V: FISCAL ISSUES AND DEMOCRACY
  • 17. A Theory of the Democratic Fiscal Constitution
    Francesco Forte and Domenico D’Amico
  • 18. (When) Do Tax Increases Cause Electoral Damage? The Case of Local Property Taxes in Spain
    Núria Bosch Roca and Albert Solé-Ollé
• KEYNOTE ADDRESS
  • 19. The Mystery of Brazil
    Gordon Tullock
• Index

Source: Edward Elgar