Architects of political change : constitutional quandaries and social choice theory / Norman Schofield.
This analysis builds on earlier theoretical work by Mancur Olson, William Riker and Douglass North. Professor Schofield emphasizes that under some conditions architects of political change can put a new perspective on societal quandaries, such that societies can choose an option that has a better &#...
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Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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Table of Contents:
- Constitutional quandaries and social choice
- Power and social choice
- Franklin and the War of Independence
- Madison, Jefferson, and Condorcet
- Lincoln and the Civil War
- Johnson and the critical realignment of 1964
- Keynes and the Atlantic constitution
- Preferences and beliefs
- Political change.