Constitutional Political Economy in a Public Choice Perspective / edited by Charles K. Rowley.

Constitutional political economy is a research program that directs inquiry to the working properties of rules and institutions within which individuals interact and to the processes through which these rules and institutions are chosen or come into being. This book makes the case for an approach to...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Rowley, Charles K., 1939-2013
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The relevance of public choice for constitutional political economy
  • Positive constitutional economics: A survey
  • Constitutions for new democracies: Reflections of turmoil or agents of stability?
  • Toward a new constitution for a future country
  • The balanced budget amendment: Clarifying the arguments
  • The prohibition-repeal amendments: A natural experiment in interest group influence
  • Term limits and electoral competitiveness: Evidence from California's state legislative races
  • Choosing free trade without amending the U.S. Constitution
  • Marginal cost sharing and the Articles of Confederation
  • On the (relative) unimportance of a balanced budget
  • Public choice in a federal system
  • Federalism and the European Union: A constitutional perspective
  • Subsidiarity and ecologically based taxation: A European constitutional perspective
  • Rule and policy spaces and economic progress: Lessons for Third World countries.