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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Häftad, 1990
377 kr
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Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the …
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy
Lessons from Medieval Trade
Av Avner Greif
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of …
A Theory of the State
Economic Rights, Legal Rights, and the Scope of the State
Av Yoram Barzel, Randall Calvert m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
468 kr
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This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to control him. Among the offshoots of …
Elbridge Gerry's Salamander
The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution
Av Gary W. Cox, Jonathan N. Katz m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
455 kr
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The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. Both state legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively - by …
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
Häftad, 2001
468 kr
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This 2001 book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures …
The Efficient Secret
The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England
Av Gary W. Cox, Randall Calvert m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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The Efficient Secret is an analysis of the institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England, concentrating on the years between the first and third Reform Acts. Professor Gary W. Cox employs a rational choice model to analyze the problems of voter choice and to …
Appointing Central Bankers
The Politics of Monetary Policy in the United States and the European Monetary Union
Av Kelly H. Chang, Randall Calvert m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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This book examines monetary policy by focusing on how the President and the Senate influence monetary policy by appointing Federal Reserve members. It attempts to answer three questions about the appointment process and its effects. First, do politicians influence monetary policy through Federal …
When Majorities Fail
The Russian Parliament, 1990-1993
Av Josephine T. Andrews, Randall Calvert m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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When Majorities Fail is a study of institutional failure in Russia's first democratic legislature. Inadequate rules and a chaotic party system combined to make it nearly impossible to pass a coherent legislative program, including a new constitution. The internal instability in Russia's parliament …
Budget Reform Politics
The Design of the Appropriations Process in the House of Representatives, 1865-1921
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In this 1989 book Charles Stewart analyses the development of the budgetary process in the House of Representatives between 1865 and 1921. The period began with the creation of the House Appropriations Committee and ended with the passage of the Budgetary Accounting Act. Attempts at change were …
Ideology and Strategy
A Century of Swedish Politics
Av Leif Lewin
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Ideology and Strategy is an analysis of issues in Swedish parliamentary history over the past 100 years. Leif Lewin has chosen eight issues and scrutinized them using traditional analysis and, importantly, game-theoretic reasoning. For each, he presents the outcome and its history and the strategic …
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State
Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965
Av Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Using institutional economics, Professors Alston and Ferrie show how paternalism in Southern agriculture helped shape the growth of the American welfare state in the hundred years following the Civil War. It was an integral part of agricultural contracts prior to mechanization. Paternalism involved …
Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile
Häftad, 2007
557 kr
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen several authoritarian governments voluntarily cede power to constitutionally elected democratic governments. John Londregan uses Chile as a case study of this phenomenon, exploring what sorts of guarantees are required for those who are ceding power and how those …
The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast
An Empirical Study Applying Rational Choice Theory
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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This book explores the political process by which property rights are defined and enforced in two traditional states in colonial Ghana. The case studies within the book ask how colonial institutions transformed indigenous political and economic life; and how colonization and decolonization affected …
Odd Markets in Japanese History
Law and Economic Growth
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Employing a rational-choice approach, Professor Ramseyer studies the impact of Japanese law on economic growth in Japan. Toward that end, the author investigates the way law governed various markets and the way that people negotiated contracts within those markets. For much of the period at stake, …
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State
France and Great Britain 1688-1789
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book develops new theory about the link between debt and democracy and applies it to a classic historical comparison: Great Britain in the eighteenth century which had strong representative institutions and sound public finance vs. ancient regime France, which had neither. The book argues that …
Rationalizing Parliament
Legislative Institutions and Party Politics in France
Häftad, 2008
553 kr
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Rationalizing Parliament examines how institutional arrangements in the French Constitution shape the bargaining strategies of political parties. The book investigates the decision by French cities to include in the Constitution legislative procedures aimed to 'rationalize' the policy-making role …
The Fruits of Revolution
Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture, 1700-1860
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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In The Fruits of Revolution Jean-Laurent Rosenthal investigates two central questions in French economic history: To what extent did institutions hold back agricultural development under the Old Regime, and did reforms carried out during the French Revolution significantly improve the structure of …
Globalization, Politics, and Financial Turmoil
Asia's Banking Crisis
Häftad, 2009
536 kr
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In a world where capital moves freely across national borders, developing countries have increasingly been subjected to devastating financial crises caused by the sudden withdrawal of foreign capital. How do such crises come about? This book focuses on a novel causal path: that of miscommunication. …
Election Timing
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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Endogenous election timing allows leaders to schedule elections 'when the time is right'. The author proposes and tests an informational theory of endogenous election timing that explains when leaders call for elections and the consequences of their decisions. In particular, he argues that, if all …
The Politics of Constitutional Review in Germany
Häftad, 2009
509 kr
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Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies. This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central role of public support for judicial independence. The empirical sections of the book illustrate the theoretical …
The Limits of Judicial Independence
Av Tom S. Clark
Häftad, 2010
439 kr
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This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a historical overview of Court-curbing …
Social Choice and Legitimacy
The Possibilities of Impossibility
Av John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn
Häftad, 2014
435 kr
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Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for such trade-offs and then demonstrates that such explanations can always be found, though not for every possible choice. In so doing, John W. …
The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina
A Transactions Cost Approach
Av Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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This book develops a general model of public policymaking, focusing on the difficulties of securing intertemporal exchanges among politicians. By using this model the authors are able to derive a series of empirical propositions about the conditions under which policies are likely to be volatile, …
The Political Economy of Property Rights
Institutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies
Häftad, 2011
672 kr
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Originally published in 1997, The Political Economy of Property Rights reports on comparative research into the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China. Two important theoretical questions unify the contributions: what aspects of political systems give credibility to …
Industrializing English Law
Entrepreneurship and Business Organization, 1720-1844
Av Ron Harris
Häftad, 2011
574 kr
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Between the passage of the Bubble Act in 1720 and the sweeping reforms of the General Incorporation Act of 1844, the legal framework of business organization in England remained remarkably stagnant despite the profound economic and structural changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution. Originally …
Social Choice and Legitimacy
The Possibilities of Impossibility
Av John W. Patty, Elizabeth Maggie Penn
Inbunden, 2014
836 kr
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Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for such trade-offs and then demonstrates that such explanations can always be found, though not for every possible choice. In so doing, John W. …
Political Transformations and Public Finances
Europe, 1650-1913
Inbunden, 2011
1529 kr
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How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of efficient …
The Limits of Judicial Independence
Av Tom S. Clark
Inbunden, 2010
717 kr
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This book investigates the causes and consequences of congressional attacks on the US Supreme Court, arguing that the extent of public support for judicial independence constitutes the practical limit of judicial independence. First, the book presents a historical overview of Court-curbing …
Congress
Structure and Policy
Av Matthew D. McCubbins, Terry Sullivan
Häftad, 1987
698 kr
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First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective. The selections blend theoretical material found in the fields of discussion theory, political economy, social choice and game theory, with classics on such standard …
Ideology and Strategy
A Century of Swedish Politics
Av Leif Lewin
Inbunden, 1989
2052 kr
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Ideology and Strategy is an analysis of issues in Swedish parliamentary history over the past 100 years. Leif Lewin has chosen eight issues and scrutinized them using traditional analysis and, importantly, game-theoretic reasoning. For each, he presents the outcome and its history and the strategic …
