TY - BOOK AU - Navarra, Pietro ed. AU - Mudamb, Ram ed. AU - Sobbrio, Giuseppe ed. TI - Rules and reason: perspectives on constitutional political economy SN - 0521659590 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University press KW - Diritto costituzionale -- Fattori economici. KW - FEDERALISMO N1 - Foreword / James M. Buchanan -- Constitutional issues in modern democracies / Ram Mudambi, Pietro Navarra, and Giuseppe Sobbrio -- On writing a constitution / Dennis C. Mueller -- Constitutional order and economic evolution: competitive and protectionist interests in democratic Society / Viktor Vanberg -- The efficacy of arbitrary rules / James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon -- Constitutional political economy and civil society / Charles K. Rowley -- The constitutional conflict between protecting expectations and moral evolution / Nicolaus Tideman -- Ideological competition and institutions: why cultural explanations of development patterns are not nonsense / Michael J. Ensley and Michael C. Munger -- Electoral systems and the art of constitutional engineering: an inventory of the main findings / Bernard N. Grofman and Andrew Reynolds -- Ordinary elections and constitutional arrangements / Pierre Salmon -- The cost imposed on political coalitions by constituent parties: the case of italian national elections / Ram Mudambi, Pietro Navarra, and Giuseppe Sobbrio -- A model of two-party campaigns in pluralistic elections with evidence / Chris W. Paul II and Allen W. Wilhite -- Ensuring a stable federal state: economics or political institutional design / Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Olga V. Shvetsova -- A proposal for dynamic European Federalism: FOJC / Bruno S. Frey and Reiner Eichenberger -- The Maastricht excessive deficit rules and creative accounting / Francesco Forte -- Subsidiarity, federalism, and direct democracy as basic elements of a federal European constitution: some ideas using constitutional economics / Friedrich Schneider and Alexander F. Wagner ER -