Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting

This book presents the latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The authors are eminent scholars from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Spain, Italy, Mexico and the Philippines. Many of them have been influenced by Nobel laureate Douglass North, who pioneered the new institutional social sciences, or by William H. Riker who contributed to the field of positive political theory.
The book focuses on topics such as: case studies in institutional analysis; research on war and the formation of states; the analysis of corruption; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods; comparing elections under plurality and proportional rule, and in developed and new democracies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Elections and Coalitions.- Institutions.

Zusammenfassung

This book presents the latest research  in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The authors are eminent scholars from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Spain, Italy, Mexico and the Philippines. Many of them have been influenced by Nobel laureate Douglass North, who pioneered the new institutional social sciences, or by William H. Riker who contributed to the field of positive political theory. The book focuses on topics such as: case studies in institutional analysis; research on war and the formation of states; the analysis of corruption; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods; comparing elections under plurality and proportional rule, and in developed and new democracies. 

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: CABALLERO (Herausgeber), Caballero (Herausgeber), Gonzalo Caballero (Herausgeber), Norma Schofield (Herausgeber), Norman Schofield (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9783642195181
• ISBN: 978-3-642-19518-1
• Seiten: 425
• Gewicht: 780 g
• Illustration: IX, 425 p.
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft; B, Political Science, Economic theory & philosophy, Public Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science and International Studies, Quantitative Economics, Public finance, Public finance & taxation, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods