Perspectives on Public Choice A Handbook

Name: Perspectives on Public Choice A Handbook
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ISBN: 9780521556545

ISBN-10: 0521556546

ISBN-13: 9780521556545

Edition: 1996

Authors: Dennis C. Mueller

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Public choice or rational politics differs from other approaches to the study of political behaviour in that it builds on models in which rational individuals seek to advance their own interests. This five part volume surveys the field.

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 692
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.54" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Dennis C. Mueller is Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna.




Public choice in perspective




The Need for and Forms of Cooperation



Economic theories of the state




Neither markets nor states: linking transformation processes in collective-action arenas




The political economy of Federalism




The public choice of international organizations




Constitutional public choice




Voting Rules and Preference Aggregation



Cycling and majority rule




Majority rule Douglas




Group choice and individual judgments




Some paradoxes of preference aggregation




Voting and the revelation of preferences for public activities




Electoral Politics



The spatial analysis of elections and committees: four decades of research




Multiparty electoral politics




Interest groups: money, information and influence




Logrolling




Political business cycles




Individual Behavior and Collective Action



When is it rational to vote?




Voting behavior Morris




Public Choice Experiments




Public Choice in Action



Modern bureaucratic theory




The positive theory of public bureaucracy




The political economy of taxation




Rent seeking




Endogenous protection: a survey




Why does government's share of national income grow? An assessment of the recent literature on the US experience