PUBLIC CHOICE AND THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY / J. CASAS PARDO, PEDRO SCHWARTZ

Public choice and the challenges of democracy / edited by José Casas Pardo, Pedro Schwartz. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2007.  XI, 366 p. 24 cm. Tapa dura con soibrecubiertas (New Thinking in Political Economy)
Contiene: Introduction / José Casas Pardo, Pedro Schwartz; I: GENERAL PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRACY. Threats democracy faces: an overview / José Casas Pardo; Social justice examined: with a little help from Adam Smith / Anthony de Jasay; Affective public choice / Frans van Winden; Bentham and public choice: utility, interests and the agency problem in democracy / Pedro Schwartz; II: INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF DEMOCRACY. Towards a more consistent design of parliamentary democracy and its consequences for the European Union / Charles B. Blankart, Dennis C. Mueller; Democracy, citizen sovereignty and constitutional economics / Viktor J. Vanberg; Diffuse and popular interests versus concentrated interests: the fate of environmental policies in divided government / Giorgio Brosio; Should the democratic model be applied to non-governmental organizations and firms? / Pascal Salin; Citizenship and democracy in international organizations / Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer; Law and economic development: common law versus civil law / Francisco Cabrillo; III: VOTING ISSUES. A reformulation of voting theory / William A. Niskanen; Informational limits to public policy: ignorance and the jury theorem / Roger D. Congleton; Democratic decision, stability of outcome and agent power, with special reference to the European Union / Manfred J. Holler, Stefan Napel; The unequal treatment of voters under a single transferable vote: implications for electoral welfare with an application to the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections / Vani K. Borooah; IV: DEMOCRACY ACROSS THE WORLD. The pattern of democracy in the twentieth century: a study of the polity index / Peter Sandholt Jensen and Martin Paldam; Democracy in low-income countries / Arye L. Hillman; V: FISCAL ISSUES AND DEMOCRACY. A theory of the democratic fiscal constitution / Francesco Forte, Domenico D'Amico; (When) do tax increases cause electoral damage? The case of local property taxes in Spain / Núria Bosch Roca and Albert Solé-Ollé; KEYNOTE ADDRESS. The mystery of Brazil / Gordon Tullock