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Informationen zum Autor Norman Schofield is Taussig Professor of Political Economy at Washington University in St. Louis. He has served as Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Humboldt University Berlin in 2003-04, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1988-89, and Shrman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in 1983-84. Professor Schofield is the author of Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice (2003), Multiparty Government (coauthored with Michael Laver, 1990), and Social Choice and Democracy (1985). He received the William Riker Prize in 2002 for contributions to political theory and is co-recipient with Gary Miller of the Jack L. Walker Prize for the best article on political organizations and parties in the American Political Science Review for 2002-04. Klappentext Explores how leading political figures in Great Britain and the US contributed to profound changes. Zusammenfassung This analysis builds on earlier theoretical work by Mancur Olson! William Riker and Douglass North. Professor Schofield emphasizes that under some conditions architects of political change can put a new perspective on societal quandaries! such that societies can choose an option that has a better 'probability of a fit choice'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Constitutional quandaries and rational choice; 2. Power, prosperity and social choice; 3. Franklin and the War of Independence: 1776-1783; 4. Madison, Jefferson and condorcet; 5. Lincoln and the Civil War; 6. Johnson and the critical realignment of 1964; 7. Keynes and the Atlantic constitution; 8. Preferences and beliefs; 9. Political change; 10. Notes; 11. Figures and tables.
