Research Catalog

Title

The public choice approach to politics / Dennis C. Mueller.

Author

Mueller, Dennis C.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xxii, 525 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Economists of the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Economists of the twentieth century

Subject

• Social choice
• Political science
• Politische Wissenschaft
• Public-Choice-Theorie
• Öffentlichkeit
• Public Choice
• Décision politique
• Économie publique
• Choix collectif

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. The Contractarian Approach to Public Choice -- 1. Constitutional Democracy and Social Welfare -- 2. The Utilitarian Contract: A Generalization of Rawls' Theory of Justice / Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett -- 3. Intergenerational Justice and the Social Discount Rate -- 4. Achieving the Just Polity -- 5. The Social Contract and Collective Choice -- 6. Choosing a Constitution in East Europe: Lessons from Public Choice -- 7. Constitutional Rights -- 8. Individualism, Contractarianism, and Morality -- pt. II. Electoral and Voting Rules -- 9. Solving the Intensity Problem in Representative Democracy / Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett -- 10. On Equalizing the Distribution of Political Income / Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett -- 11. Representative Democracy via Random Selection / Dennis C. Mueller, Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett -- 12. The Social Gains from Exchanging Votes: A Simulation Approach / Dennis C. Mueller, Geoffrey C. Philpotts and Jaroslav Vanek -- 13. Voting by Veto -- 14. Voting by Veto and Majority Rule -- 15. Probabilistic Majority Rule -- pt. III. The Composition and Size of Government Activity -- 16. Allocation, Redistribution, and Collective Choice -- 17. The Pareto Optimal Approach to Income Redistribution: A Fiscal Application / Dennis C. Mueller and George M. von Furstenberg -- 18. Redistribution, Growth, and Political Stability -- 19. Electoral Politics, Interest Groups, and the Size of Government / Dennis C. Mueller, Peter J. Coughlin and Peter Murrell -- 20. Interest Groups and the Size of Government / Dennis C. Mueller and Peter Murrell -- 21. The Growth of Government: A Public Choice Perspective -- pt. IV. James M. Buchanan and 'The Virginia School' -- 22. James M. Buchanan: Economist cum Contractarian -- 23. The "Virginia School" and Public Choice -- pt. V.A Survey of Public Choice -- 24. Public Choice: A Survey -- pt. VI. Public Choice's Methodology and Future -- 25. Rational Egoism Versus Adaptive Egoism as Fundamental Postulate for a Descriptive Theory of Human Behavior -- 26. The Future of Public Choice.

ISBN

• 1852788054
• 9781852788056

LCCN

• 93001123
• ZBWT00479108

OCLC

• ocm27898012
• 27898012
• SCSB-14213069

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library