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.

List of contents

Introduction.- Elections and Coalitions.- Institutions.

Summary

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. 

Product details

• Assisted by: CABALLERO (Editor), Caballero (Editor), Gonzalo Caballero (Editor), Norma Schofield (Editor), Norman Schofield (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9783642195181
• ISBN: 978-3-642-19518-1
• No. of pages: 425
• Weight: 780 g
• Illustrations: IX, 425 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; 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