Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780511156311
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0521630207
,
0521639778
Serie:
Theories of institutional design
Inhalt:
This book offers an approach to the economic analysis of democracy.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Democratic devices -- Democratic desires -- A reader's guide -- PART I Democratic desires -- 2 On human nature: beyond homo economicus -- Motivation in politics -- Do moral motives really matter? -- Homo economicus and normative theory -- Ethics and democratic politics -- 3 Moral dispositions -- Rationality and trust -- The reliance predicament -- Approaches to the reliance predicament - repetition -- Approaches to the reliance predicament - enforcement -- Approaches to the reliance predicament - dispositions -- Translucency -- Rational access -- Are moral dispositions important? -- 4 Economising on virtue -- Motivation and morality -- The nature of virtue -- The idea(s) of economising on virtue -- Economising on a stock -- Economising in use -- Economising in allocation -- Economising in production -- Dispositional heterogeneity -- Substantive morality -- Overview -- 5 Political mechanisms -- Introduction -- Sanctioning -- Screening -- Virtue producing -- Virtue enhancing -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Condorcet jury theorems -- Aggregating -- Indirect and interaction effects -- 6 Mechanisms and dispositional choice -- A simple model -- Extending the model -- 7 Problems of democratic politics -- The rational actor perspective -- The principal-agent problem -- Aggregation and social preference -- Universal domain and independence -- Non-dictatorship and Pareto optimality -- Majoritarian cycles and spirals -- Expressive voting -- Rent seeking -- Beyond public choice -- Institutional robustness -- PART II Democratic devices -- 8 Voting and elections -- Introduction -- Models of voting behaviour -- Instrumental voting with voluntary participation -- Expressive voting in one dimension.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I Democratic desires; PART II Democratic devices; Bibliography; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780521630207
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521630207
Weitere Ausg.:
Druckausg. Brennan, Geoffrey, 1944 - 2022 Democratic devices and desires Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000 ISBN 0521630207
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0521639778
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
Schlagwort(e):
Repräsentative Demokratie
;
Politische Wissenschaft
;
Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie
;
Repräsentative Demokratie
;
Ökonomische Theorie der Politik
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Mehr zum Autor:
Brennan, Geoffrey 1944-2022
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