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Author : David P. Baron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (346 download)
Download or read book A Dynamic Theory of Collective Goods Programs written by David P. Baron and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Besley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158150
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Pillars of Prosperity written by Timothy Besley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters—places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. To achieve peace, the authors stress the avoidance of repressive government and civil conflict. Easy taxes, they argue, refers not to low taxes, but a tax system with widespread compliance that collects taxes at a reasonable cost from a broad base, like income. And a tolerable administration of justice is about legal infrastructure that can support the enforcement of contracts and property rights in line with the rule of law. The authors show that countries tend to enjoy all three pillars of prosperity when they have evolved cohesive political institutions that promote common interests, guaranteeing the provision of public goods. In line with much historical research, international conflict has also been an important force behind effective states by fostering common interests. The absence of common interests and/or cohesive political institutions can explain the existence of very different development clusters in fragile states that are plagued by poverty, violence, and weak state capacity.
Author : Kenneth A. Shepsle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083190
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions written by Kenneth A. Shepsle and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison of rational choice models of Congress
Author : Shane Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199653011
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies written by Shane Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author : William G. Howell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400874394
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Power without Persuasion written by William G. Howell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of U.S. presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in this formulation, is strictly about bargaining and convincing other political actors to do things the president cannot accomplish alone. Power without Persuasion argues otherwise. Focusing on presidents' ability to act unilaterally, William Howell provides the most theoretically substantial and far-reaching reevaluation of presidential power in many years. He argues that presidents regularly set public policies over vocal objections by Congress, interest groups, and the bureaucracy. Throughout U.S. history, going back to the Louisiana Purchase and the Emancipation Proclamation, presidents have set landmark policies on their own. More recently, Roosevelt interned Japanese Americans during World War II, Kennedy established the Peace Corps, Johnson got affirmative action underway, Reagan greatly expanded the president's powers of regulatory review, and Clinton extended protections to millions of acres of public lands. Since September 11, Bush has created a new cabinet post and constructed a parallel judicial system to try suspected terrorists. Howell not only presents numerous new empirical findings but goes well beyond the theoretical scope of previous studies. Drawing richly on game theory and the new institutionalism, he examines the political conditions under which presidents can change policy without congressional or judicial consent. Clearly written, Power without Persuasion asserts a compelling new formulation of presidential power, one whose implications will resound.
Author : Norman Schofield
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319445820
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book State, Institutions and Democracy written by Norman Schofield and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy. Modern political economy has implied the interaction between politics and economics to understand political, electoral and public issues in different nations, and in this volume a group of leading political economists and political scientists from Europe, America and Asia provides theoretical advances, modelling and case studies on main topics in political economy. The analysis of the role and performance of politics and democracy in diverse nations implies the study of the organization of the state, lobbying, political participation, public policies, electoral politics, public administration and the provision of public services. This book provides advances in the research frontier of these topics and combines historical evidence, institutional analysis, mathematical models and empirical analysis in an interdisciplinary approach. Political and social scientists, economists and those interested in the performance of states, democracy and elections can find new research results in this volume.
Author : George Tsebelis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831458
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Veto Players written by George Tsebelis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political scientists have long classified systems of government as parliamentary or presidential, two-party or multiparty, and so on. But such distinctions often fail to provide useful insights. For example, how are we to compare the United States, a presidential bicameral regime with two weak parties, to Denmark, a parliamentary unicameral regime with many strong parties? Veto Players advances an important, new understanding of how governments are structured. The real distinctions between political systems, contends George Tsebelis, are to be found in the extent to which they afford political actors veto power over policy choices. Drawing richly on game theory, he develops a scheme by which governments can thus be classified. He shows why an increase in the number of "veto players," or an increase in their ideological distance from each other, increases policy stability, impeding significant departures from the status quo. Policy stability affects a series of other key characteristics of polities, argues the author. For example, it leads to high judicial and bureaucratic independence, as well as high government instability (in parliamentary systems). The propositions derived from the theoretical framework Tsebelis develops in the first part of the book are tested in the second part with various data sets from advanced industrialized countries, as well as analysis of legislation in the European Union. Representing the first consistent and consequential theory of comparative politics, Veto Players will be welcomed by students and scholars as a defining text of the discipline. From the preface to the Italian edition: ? "Tsebelis has produced what is today the most original theory for the understanding of the dynamics of contemporary regimes. . . . This book promises to remain a lasting contribution to political analysis."--Gianfranco Pasquino, Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna
Author : Barry R. Weingast
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199548471
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy written by Barry R. Weingast and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Author : Rebecca B. Morton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139427733
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Methods and Models written by Rebecca B. Morton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical techniques. While there are examples of noteworthy efforts to bridge the gap between these, there is still a need for much more cooperative work between formal theorists and empirical researchers in the discipline. This book explores how empirical analysis has, can, and should be used to evaluate formal models in political science. The book is intended to be a guide for active and future political scientists who are confronting the issues of empirical analysis with formal models in their work and as a basis for a needed dialogue between empirical and formal theoretical researchers in political science. These developments, if combined, are potentially a basis for a new revolution in political science.
Author : George Tsebelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589727
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Bicameralism written by George Tsebelis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines some fifty countries to ascertain how the chambers of bicameral legislatures interact when they produce legislation. An understanding of this interaction is essential because otherwise legislative behaviour in each chamber may be unintelligible or incorrectly interpreted. The book employs cooperative game theoretic models to establish that bicameral legislatures, when compared with unicameral legislatures, increase the stability of the status quo and reduce intercameral differences to one privileged dimension of conflict. Non-cooperative game theoretic models are used to investigate the significance of a series of insitutional devices used to resolve intercameral conflict where a bill is introduced, which chamber has the final word, how many times a bill can shuttle between chambers, and whether conference committees are called. Empirical evidence, mainly from the French Republic, is used to evaluate the arguments.
Author : B. Kittel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137016647
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Experimental Political Science written by B. Kittel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behaviour and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of is on the implementation of principles in experimental political science and the reflection of actual practices.
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461559715
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Political Science Abstracts written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1996 Supplement of Political Science Abstracts contains 10,000 carefully prepared abstracts of materials from public affairs magazines, major newspapers, professional journals, and books devoted to politics and political analysis. The organization of the proceeding volumes has been retained intact, as has the recently added list of subdisciplinary descriptors. Users of earlier volumes will be on familiar ground, while those new to Political Science Abstracts will find the instructions on page ix easy to master. CONTENTS Volume 1 (This Volume) How to Use This Supplement . ix Political Science Subdisciplinary Descriptors xi Index of Terms ............... . xiii Abstracts of Documents in This Supplement. Volume 2 Bibliographic Index to the Abstracts (ABILITY-MINNESOTA) . 821 Volume 3 Bibliographic Index to the Abstracts (MINORITY-ZULU) 1565 Author Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2119 List of Periodicals Abstracted in This Supplement. 2121 HOW TO USE THIS SUPPLEMENT Three simple steps are all that are needed to introduce the user to this easily accessible indexing system. STEP 1: Turn to the Index of Terms and locate as many terms as possible that deal with your subject. If you are interested in coverage of a more generic nature, you may instead turn to the next page, where key descriptors are listed that are associated with the major subject areas in political science and with their subdivisions. Note that the index includes methodological as well as topical terms. Numerical listings (e.g., 24TH/PAR/C) are located at the end of the alphabetical listing.
Author : Emin Karagözoğlu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030766667
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Bargaining written by Emin Karagözoğlu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Edited Collection provides a rigorous and rich overview of current bargaining research in economics and related disciplines, as well as a discussion of future directions. The Editors create cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological synergies by bringing together bargaining researchers from various fields, including game theory, experimental economics, political economy, autonomous negotiations, artificial intelligence, environmental economics and behavioral operations management; as well as using various methods, including the strategic approach, axiomatic approach, empirical research, lab and field experiments, machine learning and decision support systems. Offering insights into the theoretical foundations of bargaining research, traditional applications to bargaining research and topics of growing importance due to new advances in technology and the changing political and physical landscape of the world, this book is a key tool for anyone working on or interested in bargaining.
Author : Scott A. Frisch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136531270
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Pork written by Scott A. Frisch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This study develops a new way of studying pork barrel politics based on congressional behavior in the 1980s and 1990s.
Author : Iain S. McLean
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401148600
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R.A. Newing written by Iain S. McLean and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics and physics. Mathematics as taught at Glasgow seems to have been designed for engineers and did not excite him and he switched to economics, which he found more congenial. But it was not in a lecture in economics but in one on politics that he found his star. One lecturer, A. K. White, discussed the possibility of constructing a pure science of politics. This question caught his imagination, perhaps because of his earlier training in physics, and it came to absorb his thoughts for the rest of his life. But almost certainly nothing would have come of it were it not for his appointment to the newly formed Dundee School of Economics where the rest of the. teaching staff came from the London School of Economics. At Glasgow, economics, as in the time of Adam Smith, was linked with moral philosophy. At Dundee, Black was introduced to the analytical x The Theory o/Committees and Elections approach dominant at the London School of Economics. This gave him the approach he used in his attempt to construct a pure science of politics.
Author : Charles M. Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521625500
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Veto Bargaining written by Charles M. Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining game theory with unprecedented data, this book analyzes how divided party Presidents use threats and vetoes to wrest policy concessions from a hostile congress.
Author : Elhanan Helpman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674038578
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Institutions and Economic Performance written by Elhanan Helpman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity? The answer, the book argues, lies to a large extent in institutional differences across societies. Such institutions are wide-ranging and include formal constitutional arrangements, the role of economic and political elites, informal institutions that promote investment and knowledge transfer, and others. Two core themes run through the contributors’ essays. First, what constraints do institutions place on the power of the executive to prevent it from extorting the investments and effort of other people and institutions? Second, when are productive institutions self-enforcing? Institutions and Economic Performance is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
