Political Process - New Perspectives on the Virginia and Bloomington Schools

Political Process: New Perspectives on the Virginia and Bloomington Schools explore the concept of political process using insights from the Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy. The chapters examine the processes of collective decision-making theoretically and through applied case studies from multiple disciplines.

List of contents

Introduction by Donald J. Boudreaux, Christopher J. Coyne, and Brian Kogelmann
Part I: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 1: Politics Without Romance, Without Romance: The Meta-Problem for Virginia Political Economy by Jason Lee Byas
Chapter 2: Co-production and the Use of Knowledge in Public Administration by Jordan J. Hunter
Chapter 3: How Public Governance and Markets Became Learning Processes by Mariam Sedighi
Chapter 4: Rule-Based Fiscal Governance: Challenges, Alternatives, and a Path for Reform by Andrew Berryhill
Chapter 5: "Human Wisdom": What Plato Can Teach Us About Technocracy by Eryn Rozonoyer
Chapter 6: James M. Buchanan and the Unromantic Rhetoric of Public Choice by Alexander W. Morales
Part II: Applications
Chapter 7: Aura and the Aesthetics of Constitutional Creation: Knowledge and Representation in the Drafting of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan by Todd Maslyk
Chapter 8: Masquerading Democracies: What Protest Actions Can Inform Us About the True State of the Regime? by Sargis Karavardanyan
Chapter 9: Re-examining Commerce's Impact on Peace and Conflicts by Paa-Kwesi Heto
Chapter 10: Transaction Costs and Authoritarian Institutions: Early Coalition Size and Regime Party-Building by Curtis Bram
Chapter 11: Disaster Recovery, Entrepreneurship, and the American Revolution: Women in the Foundations of American Political Economy by Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug

About the author

Dr. Donald J. Boudreaux, professor of economics, George Mason University; senior fellow
Dr. Christopher J. Coyne, professor of economics, George Mason University; associate director
Dr. Brian Kogelmann, associate professor of philosophy and political science at Purdue University

Product details

• Authors: Donald J Boudreaux, Donald J. Coyne Boudreaux
• Assisted by: Boudreaux Donald J. (Editor), Brian Kogelmann (Editor), Christopher J Coyne (Editor), Coyne Christopher J. (Editor), Donald J Boudreaux (Editor), Brian Kogelmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9781666945416
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-541-6
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Economy, Polity, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Urban & municipal planning, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Central government policies