Democratic devices and desires

Democratic devices and desires / by Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin.

This book offers a novel approach to the analysis of democracy, and an application of that approach to a variety of democratic institutions, including elections, representation, political parties and the separation of powers. Standard economic approaches to politics concentrate on the design of inst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brennan, Geoffrey, 1944-
Other Authors: Hamlin, Alan P., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Theories of institutional design.
Subjects:
Democracy > Economic aspects.
Political science > Economic aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy > Economic aspects
Political science > Economic aspects
Public-Choice-Theorie
Theorie
Demokratie
Democratie.
Politieke instellingen.
Public Choice.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Democratic desires. On human nature: beyond homo economicus
  • Moral dispositions
  • Economising on virtue
  • Political mechanisms
  • Mechanisms and dispositional choice
  • Problems of democratic politics
  • Democratic devices. Voting and elections
  • Political representation
  • Political parties
  • The separation of powers
  • The division of power.

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