Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (192 p.))
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Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511664816
Content:
The very logic of majority rule implies unequal treatment or discrimination. If left unconstrained, majority coalitions will promote the interests of their own members at the expense of other persons. This book focuses on the effects of applying a generality constraint on the political process. Under this requirement, majorities would be constitutionally prohibited from treating different persons and groups differently. The generality principle is familiar in that all persons are to be treated equally. In summary, this book extends the generality norm to politics. Several defences of equal treatment or generality are developed and applied. These include the familiar intuition that invokes fairness. But the primary argument here is centred on political efficiency, which is increased when governments are constrained to treat persons or groups generally rather than differentially. The political efficiency defence of the generality constraint is based on a public choice analysis of the implication of majoritarian discrimination
Content:
Part 1 Introduction: generality, law, and politics. Part 2 Analysis: majoritarian democracy; eliminating the off diagonals; extending the argument; generality and the political agenda. Part 3 Application: generality and externality; market restriction and the generality norm; the political efficiency of general taxation; deficit financing and the intertemporal discrimination; generality and the supply of public services; generality and redistribution; generality without uniformity -- social insurance; generality without uniformity -- federalism. Part 4 Prospect: the political shape of constitutional order
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521621878
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521031325
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Buchanan, James M., 1919 - 2013 Politics by principle, not interest Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 ISBN 0521621879
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521621878
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Demokratie
;
Wirtschaft
;
Politik
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511664816
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Author information:
Buchanan, James M. 1919-2013
