Author: Marcus Davis GilmanPublisher: Burlington : Free Press association
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Bibliography of Vermont
Author: Marcus Davis GilmanPublisher: Burlington : Free Press association
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Strategic Constitution
Author: Robert D. CooterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691214506
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Making, amending, and interpreting constitutions is a political game that can yield widespread suffering or secure a nation's liberty and prosperity. Given these high stakes, Robert Cooter argues that constitutional theory should trouble itself less with literary analysis and arguments over founders' intentions and focus much more on the real-world consequences of various constitutional provisions and choices. Pooling the best available theories from economics and political science, particularly those developed from game theory, Cooter's economic analysis of constitutions fundamentally recasts a field of growing interest and dramatic international importance. By uncovering the constitutional incentives that influence citizens, politicians, administrators, and judges, Cooter exposes fault lines in alternative forms of democracy: unitary versus federal states, deep administration versus many elections, parliamentary versus presidential systems, unicameral versus bicameral legislatures, common versus civil law, and liberty versus equality rights. Cooter applies an efficiency test to these alternatives, asking how far they satisfy the preferences of citizens for laws and public goods. To answer Cooter contrasts two types of democracy, which he defines as competitive government. The center of the political spectrum defeats the extremes in "median democracy," whereas representatives of all the citizens bargain over laws and public goods in "bargain democracy." Bargaining can realize all the gains from political trades, or bargaining can collapse into an unstable contest of redistribution. States plagued by instability and contests over redistribution should move towards median democracy by increasing transaction costs and reducing the power of the extremes. Specifically, promoting median versus bargain democracy involves promoting winner-take-all elections versus proportional representation, two parties versus multiple parties, referenda versus representative democracy, and special governments versus comprehensive governments. This innovative theory will have ramifications felt across national and disciplinary borders, and will be debated by a large audience, including the growing pool of economists interested in how law and politics shape economic policy, political scientists using game theory or specializing in constitutional law, and academic lawyers. The approach will also garner attention from students of political science, law, and economics, as well as policy makers working in and with new democracies where constitutions are being written and refined.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule and Odd-fellows' Family Companion
Author: The Golden Rule
Author: The Freemason's Monitor
Author: Thomas Smith WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Ritual of the Order Eastern Star
Author: Order of the Eastern Star. General Grand ChapterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Freemason's Book of the Royal Arch
Author: Bernard E. JonesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359701299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Massachusetts Labor Legislation
Author: Sarah Scovill WhittelseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Author: Michel FoucaultPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819256
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methadological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now. Challenging, at times infuriating, it is an absolutey indispensable guide to one of the most innovative thinkers of our time.