ISBN:
9783642352393
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVII, 392 p. 46 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Advances in political economy
DDC:
172
Keywords:
Neue politische Ökonomie
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Theorie
;
Welt
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Social sciences
;
Finance
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Finance
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Politische Ökonomie
Abstract:
This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the influence of activists on political decisions; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods.
Abstract:
This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the influence of activists on political decisions; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods
Description / Table of Contents:
Advances in Political Economy; Introduction; Further Reading on Political Economy; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Institutions; Transaction Cost Politics in the Map of the New Institutionalism; 1 Introduction; 2 New Institutionalism: An Overview into the Social Sciences; 2.1 Definitions of Institutions; 2.2 Institutional Approaches; 3 Rational Choice-Institutionalism and New Institutional Economics; 3.1 Rational Choice Institutionalism; 3.2 New Institutional Economics; 4 Transaction Cost Politics; 5 High Transaction Costs in Political Exchange
Description / Table of Contents:
6 A Case-Study: The Governance of Political Transactions in Congress7 Constitutional Political Economy and Transaction Cost Politics; 8 Conclusion; References; Political Transitions in Ancient Greece and Medieval Italy: An Analytic Narrative; 1 Introduction; 2 Political Transitions in Ancient Greece; 2.1 Athens; 2.1.1 Solon, 594BC; 2.1.2 Kleisthenes, 508BC; 2.1.3 Ephialtes, 462BC; 3 Political Transitions in Medieval Venice and Genoa; 3.1 Venice; 3.2 Genoa; 4 Final Remarks; References; A Collective-Action Theory of Fiscal-Military State Building; 1 Formal Model; 1.1 The Game; 1.1.1 Timing
Description / Table of Contents:
1.1.2 Payoffs1.2 Equilibrium; 1.3 Investment in fiscal centralization; 1.4 Implications; 2 Historical Evidence; 2.1 England; 2.2 Colonial Mexico; 3 Conclusion; References; Stable Constitutions in Political Transition; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Related Literature; 1.2 Outline of the Paper; 2 The Model; 2.1 Freely Negotiating a New Constitution; 2.2 Negotiating a Constitution in the Presence of c; 2.3 Optimal Constitutions; 3 Static Constitutional Choice; 3.1 M and L Negotiate on Constitutional Reform; 3.1.1 Case wM〉w; 3.1.2 Case wMw
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2.2 Case wM〈=w3.3 Other Cases; 4 A Model of Intertemporal Constitutional Choice; 5 Application to Different Experiences of Political Transition; 6 Further Discussion; Appendix; References; Quandaries of Gridlock and Leadership in US Electoral Politics; 1 Introduction; 2 Activist Politics; 2.1 The Logic of the Argument; 2.2 Modeling Elections; 3 An Outline of the Model; 4 Post 2008 Election; 4.1 Impact of the `Citizens United' Decision in 2010; 5 Implications of the 2010 Election; 5.1 Gridlock in the 112th Congress; 6 Conclusion and 2012; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Sub-central Governments and Debt Crisis in Spain over the Period 2000-20111 Introduction; 2 What Are the Main Factors Influencing the Evolution of Sub-central Debt that Are Being Emphasized in the Literature?; 3 The Evolution of Sub-central and Central Debt in Spain Before the World Financial Crash; 4 What Has Happened with Sub-central, as well as, Central Debt in Spain After the World Financial Crash?; 5 Concluding Remarks; References; Deciding How to Choose the Healthcare System; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Buchanan and Tullock; 1.2 Rawls; 1.3 Kornai and Eggleston
Description / Table of Contents:
2 Actors: The ""Society"" and the ""Patient""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-35239-3
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