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Liberty and Public Choice Theory
1996AbstractPeople may bring to bear a wide range of principles when evaluating proposals for reform; they may also take account of the way in which the policy is actually performed. This chapter considers a plurality of objectives, including those of a non‐welfarist kind. It considers the political economy of redistribution.
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Public Choice Theory and Occupational Licensing
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014Occupational licensing is now one of the most widespread and fastest growing forms of labor market regulation. Occupational licensing requirement generally are defended on the ground that they offset the information disparity between service providers and consumers by guaranteeing a minimal level of qualifications. Over time, however, a large number of
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Public Choice Theory for Political Sociology
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 1999Some sociologists and other social scientists argue that political andother sociology should be founded on a venerabl e or nascen t rationa l choicetheory seen as a unifying paradigm. Such a paradigm is predicated uponthe assumption tha t individual s are rational actor s seekin g predefined goals.The latter are subsumed under material interest ...
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Public Choice Theory and Legal Institutions
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014This article asks what public choice can teach about legal institutions and their governing framework of public law. The chapter begins with an overview and assessment of two important components of public choice: social choice theory (stemming from Arrow’s Theorem) and interest group theory. It then considers the use of public choice models to explain
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Public Choice Theory, Planning and Housing
2004In answer to the question why do we need planning?, earlier chapters have argued that planning is needed as a response to the failure of markets to achieve specified efficiency and equity objectives. Markets may, at varying levels of complexity, fail to deal with incompatible proximate land uses, inadequate poor-quality housing, the provision of parks ...
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Public Choice Theory als Theorie eines politischen Marktes?
2007Die Public Choice Theory der politischen Okonomie ist eine Antwort auf die Schwierigkeiten, die Arrows Theorem einer wohlfahrtsokonomisch fundierten Theorie der Politik bereitet. Zu den in der Okonomik prominentesten Vertretern gehoren Buchanan, Brennan und Tullock.
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Applications of Public Choice Theory to Public Policy
The contributors to this book utilize the Public Choice approach to interpret, analyze, and at times even predict policy outcomes from a variety of contexts around the world. Applications of Public Choice Theory to Public Policy emphasizes how much can be learned from studying real people in the process of navigating political processes and ...Brian Meehan +2 more
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Liberal Economics 2: Public Choice Theory
1987An important element of New Right economics is public choice theory (also known as the ‘Virginia School’, or rational choice theory, or the economics of politics; see Dunleavy, 1986), which has been especially influential amongst New Right intellectuals.
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Public Choice Theory and Smart Sanctions
2007Sanctions are seen throughout the world as blunt diplomatic instruments, potentially causing collateral damage to an innocent populace as a penalty for its government’s actions. This belief is exactly correct. Economic statecraft attempts to influence current or potential disenfranchisement, providing incentives for the target’s people to demand ...
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Public Choice Theory and Macroeconomic Policy
1988The theme of this paper is Public choice theory and macroeconomic policy. Public choice has been defined as the “economic study of nonmarket decisionmaking or simply the application of economics to political science” (Mueller (1979) p.1). In this paper I will adopt a wider definition of public choice and define it as a study of the interaction between ...
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