Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton - Brossura

Galeotti, Gianluigi

 
9780521088206: Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton
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ISBN 10: 0521088208 ISBN 13: 9780521088206
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sinossi

These essays examine the competitive mechanisms underlying collective decisions and how they are embedded in institutional settings.

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Descrizione del libro

The essays in this volume, written by well-known economists and other social scientists from North America, Europe, and Australia, share to an unusual degree a common concern with the competitive mechanisms that underlie collective decisions and with the way they are embedded in institutional settings.

Contenuti

Introduction Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe; Part I. Trust, Information, and Bureaucracy: 1. Trust and society Russel Hardin; 2. Downsizing trust Ronald Wintrobe; 3. Information and political decision-makers Jean-Dominique Lafay; Part II. Competition and Collusion in Government: 4. Divisible versus indivisible policies: an exploration of clientelistic politics Giorgio Brosio; 5. Founding fathers vs. rotten kids: a positive approach to constitutional politics Gianluigi Galeotti; Part III. Decentralization and Federalism: 6. Fiscal decentralization and Competitive Governments Richard Bird; 7. On the reassignment of fiscal powers in a federal state Stanley Winer; 8. Assigning powers over the Canadian environment Anthony Scott; 9. Art and culture goods and fiscal federalism Francesco Forte; 10. Vertical competition in a unitary state Pierre Salmon; 11. Nationalism and federalism: the political constitution of peace Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin; 12. A political efficiency case for Federalism in multinational states: controlling ethnic rent-seeking Roger Congleton; 13. Quebec 1995: the rhetoric of the referendum Robert Young; 14. Public subsidies for private firms in a federalist democracy Dennis Mueller; 15. Economic constitutions, protectionism and competition among jurisdictions Viktor Vanberg; 16. A cautious view of international harmonization: implications from Breton's theory of competitive governments Michael Trebilcock and Robert Howse.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521088208
ISBN 13 
9780521088206
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
448
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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Altre edizioni note dello stesso titolo

9780521771337: Competition and Structure: The Political Economy of Collective Decisions: Essays in Honor of Albert Breton

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521771331 ISBN 13:  9780521771337
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000
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