Understanding democracy : economic and political perspectives
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Understanding democracy : economic and political perspectives
Cambridge University Press, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references in the end of chapters
Index: p. 267-279
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Democracy has moved to the centre of systemic reflections on political economy, gaining a position which used to be occupied by the debate about socialism and capitalism. Certitudes about democracy have been replaced by an awareness of the elusiveness and fluidity of democratic institutions and of the multiplicity of dimensions involved. This is a book which reflects this intellectual situation. It consists of a collection of essays by well-known economists and political scientists from both North America and Europe on the nature of democracy, on the conditions for democracy to be stable, and on the relationship between democracy and important economic issues such as the functioning of the market economy, economic growth, income distribution and social policies.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Albert Breton, Ginaluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe
- Part I. Democracy, the Market, and the Law: 1. Democratic stability as a self-enforcing equilibrium Barry R. Weingast
- 2. Democracy, competition, and the principle of Isonomia: an economic analysis of the political exchange as an incomplete contract Michel Grillo
- 3. Constitutional democracy: an interpretation Dennis Mueller
- 4. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a viable democracy Peter Bernholz
- Part II. Democracy and Economic Growth: 5. Government spending and economic growth under democracy and dictatorship Jose Antonio Cheibub and Adam Pzeworski
- 6. Rent seeking and redistribution under democracy vs dictatorship Ronald Wintrobe
- 7. Democractic governments, economic growth and income distribution Pierre Salmon
- Part III. Democratic Deficiencies and Possible Improvements: 8. Democracy and the public machinery: the case of the headless leviathan Gianluigi Galeotti
- 9. Democracy and empowerment Albert Breton and Margot Breton
- 10. Political participation, voting and economic policy: three problems of modern democracies Luigi Campiglio
- Part IV. Democratic Expectations: 11. Components of the democratic ideal Ian Shapiro
- 12. Democracy on the margin Russell Hardin.
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