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Revisionist Public Choice Theory
New Political Economy, 2008 In a recent essay, Thomas Christiano coined a distinction between ‘mainstream’ and ‘revisionist’ rational choice political theory, and cast us in the role of revisionist theorists.1 While we disagr...
Brennan, H Geoffrey, Hamlin, Alan
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The use of happiness research for public policy [PDF]
, 2012 Research on happiness tends to follow a "benevolent dictator" approach where politicians pursue people's happiness. This paper takes an antithetic approach based on the insights of public choice theory.
A Stutzer +51 more
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Future Kuwait: Prosperity, Stagnation, or Decline?
Proceedings, 2023 This study is a qualitative meta-analysis employing a critical interpretive synthesis to describe three equally probable future social and economic growth scenarios for the State of Kuwait over the next 15 years.
Andri Ottesen +3 more
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Tax Reform in Brazil: a Public Choice Theory approach
Economia & Região, 2013 This article aims to analyze tax reform necessity and the barriers to the implementation of tax reform at the light of public choice theory. The research identifies the arguments that provides the explanation for the tax reform does not occur in Brazil ...
Allan Silveira dos Santos +3 more
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Towards a Politics of Restraint.
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2021 Public choice theory, an analysis of politics based on economic principles, is often considered to be one of the major innovations in economics and political sciences in the second half of the twentieth century.
Thomas Kayzel
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Frank Knight and the Origins of Public Choice
Œconomia, 2021 Did Frank Knight play a role in the formation of public choice theory? We argue that the dimensions of James Buchanan’s thought that form many of the core insights of public choice become clearer when seen against the work of his teacher, Frank Knight ...
David C. Coker, Ross B. Emmett
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Calvinball: Users’ Rights, Public Choice Theory and Rules Mutable Games
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2018 This article proposes the “rules mutable game” as a metaphor for understanding the operation of copyright reform. Using the game of Calvinball (created by artist Bill Watterson in his long-running comic strip Calvin & Hobbes) as an illustrative device ...
Bob Tarantino
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Choosing with confidence: Self-efficacy and preferences for choice [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 Previous research on the role of choice set size in decision making has focused on decision outcomes and satisfaction. In contrast, little is known about interindividual differences in preferences for larger versus smaller choice sets, let alone the ...
Andrew E. Reed +2 more
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Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 This study establishes sufficient conditions for observing instances of Simpson's (data aggregation) Paradox under rank sum scoring (RSS), as used, e.g., in the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) rank sum test.
Shane Sanders +2 more
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Public relations research priorities: a Delphi study [PDF]
, 2008 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and rank the most important topics for research in the field of public relations. An associated outcome was to propose the research questions most closely linked to the prioritised topics.
Watson, Tom
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